Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 11:04:35 -0800

From: Gail Stygall stygall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]U.WASHINGTON.EDU

Subject: Re: PC Dictionaries?



Maybe the lexicographers among us can answer this question. Why are the

racial and ethnic epithets found in all the dicitionaires defined as a

*person* rather than as *racial and ethnic epithets*? Isn't that what's

being objected to here? Is there some semantic rule that requires the

definition to be person rather than epithet?

Gail

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Gail Stygall stygall[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]u.washington.edu (206) 543-2190

Director, Expository Writing Program

Editor, _CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric_

English, Box 354330, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195-4330

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