Re: Phonemes

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 04:39:18 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:42B4F6F6.3211@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:18:30 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
>> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> <news:42B4ABC6.7CB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

>>> Brian M. Scott wrote:

>>>> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:19:21 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
>>>> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>>>> <news:42B41F5B.65BD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

[...]

>>>>> It's especially peculiar that he was considered so
>>>>> "liberal" because you didn't learn until p. 250 of ST
>>>>> that the hero was dark-skinned. What up wit dat?

>>>> The obvious point is that it doesn't matter -- which is
>>>> precisely as it should be.

>>> Then why did he make a point of giving him any skin color
>>> at all?

>> I would say that he didn't, and that your comment says more
>> about your perception than about what's in the book.

> I don't remember such a thing from the book; I read it somewhere.

Ah, that's the problem.

> He must have had a reason for making the guy Negro halfway
> through the book. What can it have been?

He didn't. The kid's surname is <Rico>, and as I recall we
learn near the very *end* of the book -- not halfway through
-- that he's of Filipino descent.

>>> If he wanted to make an anti-racist statement, he
>>> could have had the guy experience racism.

>> That was done in _Farnham's Freehold_. It would have been
>> out of place in ST.

> Must've been after MiaHM, which I gave up on in disgust
> halfway through.

FF is 1964; MIaHM is 1966 (and is often considered his
best-written non-juvenile, an opinion with which I agree).

Brian
.

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