From nauplion@charm.net Mon Oct 30 02:20:35 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA405714 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:20:34 -0800 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id CAA09807 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 02:20:33 -0800 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-091.charm.net [209.143.116.91]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id FAA20862 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:20:26 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <39FD4A70.5A0BCE5@charm.net> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:16:21 -0500 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Fresh again ["politically correct"] References: <001001c04223$938920a0$fb141618@c318694-a.chmpgn1.il.home.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------9FC41012467B26C43CE5CC9E" --------------9FC41012467B26C43CE5CC9E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was out of town for the little flurry over freshness, but I am informed by a generally reliable source for the changing language that a useable term is Y-POT = Young Person/People of Our Time. DW Harry Haile wrote: > Apropos the recent exchange on freshpersons, I am curious as to > whether similar concerns about politic word choice are attested among > the Ancients. --or the Moderns. I can think of various cascades of > euphemisms (or avoidance, e.g., German zagel>schwanz>schweif), and > certain fashions in what has passed for elegance, but really nothing > exactly like what we have witnessed in English over the past few > decades. Is it something new under the sun? Harry HaileUrbana --------------9FC41012467B26C43CE5CC9E Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was out of town for the little flurry over freshness, but I am informed by a generally reliable source for the changing language that a useable term is Y-POT = Young Person/People of Our Time.

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Harry Haile wrote:

Apropos the recent exchange on freshpersons, I am curious as to whether similar concerns about politic word choice are attested among the Ancients.  --or the Moderns.  I can think of various cascades of euphemisms (or avoidance, e.g., German zagel>schwanz>schweif), and certain fashions in what has passed for elegance, but really nothing exactly like what we have witnessed in English over the past few decades.  Is it something new under the sun? Harry HaileUrbana
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