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To: paulat

No most of them are toast. Because most racial slurs are basically slang and slang by its very nature is a temporary add-on to the language. Some slang, and some slurs, lives on for many years, but most shows up for a couple of decades and then goes away.


144 posted on 02/20/2007 3:29:08 PM PST by discostu (Feed her some hungry reggae, she'll love you twice)
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To: discostu
Some slang, and some slurs, lives on for many years, but most shows up for a couple of decades and then goes away.

Not true at all...the "n"-word has lived on for centuries...I know for a fact that "Polack" has (even though Wiki doesn't include the spelling, "Pollack.")

The ethnic slurs between France and Great Britain are legendary for going on for centuries. See Wm. Shakespeare.

I could go on and on down that list.

146 posted on 02/20/2007 3:34:54 PM PST by paulat
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