Re: Smileys as extensions to the alphabet?
From: Douglas G. Kilday (fufluns_at_chorus.net)
Date: 02/07/05
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 02:19:14 -0000
"Greg Lee" <greg@ling.lll.hawaii.edu> wrote ...
> Douglas G. Kilday <fufluns@chorus.net> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
>
> > Sexist role assignments are quite common in modern iconography. The
"farm
> > crossing" sign portrays a _male_ farmer on a tractor. The "deer
crossing"
> > sign portrays an antlered buck, hence it is both sexist and ageist,
since
> > the majority of the population consists of antlerless deer. The "duck
> > crossing" sign portrays a _mother_ leading her brood, perpetuating the
> > stereotype of the deadbeat drake. And of course restroom signs portray
only
> > the two most popular gender roles. There are no signs for "women
trapped in
> > men's bodies" or vice versa, although this would be easy to represent
> > iconically.
>
> > Sexism cannot be eliminated or avoided.
>
> Cannot even be avoided? Here, you go too far. We need better road signs
> to bring does and drakes back into the picture. We need additional
restroom
> types, appropriately iconized. It can be done!
It _could_ be done, given unlimited wealth, but the Nineties are behind us,
and it's all downhill from here.
> > A good example is the distinction
> > between "meritorious" and "meretricious", which is due to a
> > masculine/feminine morphological distinction. At some point, liberals
must
> > recognize the bankruptcy of the PC enterprise, and realize that there
are
> > more important matters.
>
> Such as preserving that wonderful word "meretricious" despite its
offensive
> etymology? This is so silly that one might almost suspect you of being
> an etymologist.
Yes, one might almost suspect ...
Seriously, liberals should be working to get more consonant clusters into
NASCAR. If Paul Tsongas had won the nomination in 1992, he would have had a
tough time in the general election, with red-staters horrified by a name
with initial /ts/ on the ballot. The solution is to get more
non-Anglophonoid-surnamed drivers into NASCAR, so that red-staters can get
used to them.
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