Date:  Wed, 11 Oct 1995 21:40:01 -0400

From:  Seth Sklarey <crissiet[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]IPOF.FLA.NET>

Subject: Re: the dictionary of stereotypes



>African Queen (female who looks good), African King

>(a male who looks good)

>On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, Anton Sherwood wrote:

>

>> > 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.



French kiss, Cuban coffee, Scotch Ice, Jewish lightning (insurance fire),

Canadian sunset, Russian hands & _______?, Japanese motorcycle boots (zori's),

Syrian bread, French bread, Montezuma's revenge, Turkish coffee, Mongolian

idiot, a Danish, Swedish massage, Irish coffee, Siamese twin (Thailandian

twin just doesn't cut it).



One night in a whimsical mood we decided to run through the alphabet with

euphemisms for animal dung, animal by animal, beginning with ape accident

and ending with zebra zippydeedoo. Its fun for a party.



Seth Sklarey

Wittgenstein School of the Unwritten Word

Coconut Grove, FL