A Person Paper on Purity in Languages
Thursday, 30 September 2004 14:04![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pneAn interesting article that John Cowan pointed out to me—using "black" vs "white" to talk about sexism in language (including, but not limited to, pronouns).
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Re: chairwoman
Date: Thursday, 30 September 2004 08:50 (UTC)