Date:  Fri, 6 Oct 1995 22:08:09 -0700

From:  Anton Sherwood <dasher[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NETCOM.COM>

Subject: the dictionary of stereotypes



> From: vitale[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dectlk.ENET.dec.com

> Subject: Request for ethnic terms

>

> There is a "linguistics" issue which readers of this discussion group

> could probably help me with. I'm writing a dictionary and some papers

> on the lexicalization of ethnic expressions. I began working on this

> 14 years ago. I've been collecting some ethnic expressions such as

> Mexican Standoff, Dutch Courage, Chinese Firedrill, French Fries,

> Swedish Ivy, etc.

>

> I have a large number of these words and phrases (450pp single-spaced)

> but the number of languages is small relative to the number of major

> languages (approx. 6500) spoken in the world today.

>

> If you or friends and colleagues who are native speakers of or

> specialists in various languages can think of any, I'd appreciate a

> list of these.