Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 09:45:15 -0400

From: Bob Lancaster SLANCASTER[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CENTER.COLGATE.EDU

Subject: offending idioms



Regarding that last posting of mine on "offending idioms" and "African

Americans," the e-mail address was wrong. Obviously, it should be

Colagte:EDU. Also, I apologize to anyone subject to alopecia. Such

persons are clearly "tonsorially challenged"--"hair" is a concrete noun,

and those who have none might find it offensive.

In the event that anyone might be thinking of referring to me as a

"conservative" (approbrious or not according to your inclinations), I am in

fact a card-carrying member of ACLU, an authentic bleeding-heart liberal

who considers laissez-faire market economics a PC word for peonage.



Bob Lancaster

SUNY-emeritus. English

slancaster[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]colgate.edu