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Words We Cannot Say…Except When We Can
On 23 July 2009, Henry Louis Gates was arrested on his own porch in Cambridge, MA for disorderly conduct. A neighbor thought he had been breaking in, the police were called, and then, though Dr.Gates’...
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Take Two: Words We Cannot Say…Except When We Can
I originally posted this on 10 June 2010, just over a year ago. The issue of reclaiming derogatory terms for gender, racial, ethnic, or sexual identities is an ongoing struggle, and a controversial one...
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Take Two: Words We Cannot Say…Except When We Can
I am a sucker for an online linguistic survey. Recently, I saw a tweet about this survey, being done by a PhD student in Helsinki, about attitudes towards offensive language in English. I jumped right...
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