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