Notes from the Resistance...
This USC Professor is on leave after students were offended that a Chinese word he used during a lecture on foreign languages sounded like an english racial slur. [More]
Thank God he wasn't teaching Norwegian!
[Via Michael G]
This one will probably blow over. Now, if it had been an economics professor using the word "niggardly" he/she would be in some deep trouble.nig·gard·ly/ˈniɡərdlē/adjective: niggardly not generous; stingy. "serving out the rations with a niggardly hand" meager; scanty. "their share is a niggardly 2.7 percent"adverb: niggardly in a stingy or meager manner.I can remember when The Congressional Black Caucus got their shorts in a bunch over that one.
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This one will probably blow over. Now, if it had been an economics professor using the word "niggardly" he/she would be in some deep trouble.
ReplyDeletenig·gard·ly
/ˈniɡərdlē/
adjective: niggardly
not generous; stingy.
"serving out the rations with a niggardly hand"
meager; scanty.
"their share is a niggardly 2.7 percent"
adverb: niggardly
in a stingy or meager manner.
I can remember when The Congressional Black Caucus got their shorts in a bunch over that one.
Y'know, I put links in these things for a reason... :-)
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