Re: virus: Language
Kristee (kjseelna@students.wisc.edu)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 20:35:10 -0600
This reminds me of something I heard. I was sitting in Comp. Lit.
discussion section a week or so ago, and one of the terms given to us by my
TA was "nigarology" or something like that, which supposedly came from the
word "niguard". Both of them are defined along the lines of meaning
"silliness, buffoonary, foolishness" and the like. That struck me as odd
at the time.
A day later I'm brushing my teeth and I realize how absolutely
wrong a word like that is for existing. Why do scholars even both to
disguise their overt racism? Why mess around; why not just scrawl the word
"NIGGER" as bold as can be on the chalkboard instead of bothering to create
these embellished yet transparant terms?
It Really angered me that this mocking word is being accepted and
used in scholarship and literature as a legitimate and authentic term.
Having a bunch of old professors relating 'niguard' to a term in classical
literature, right out of Volitare, is absurd. I can't believe that term
for 'foolishness' even survived after all that time. You think such as
obvious flaw would be disregarded as rubbish after some time, yet it's
overlooked and taught still.
Sorry, but I really have a hair up my ass about this it seems; so
am I just too darn sensitive for my own good, or does it bother anyone else
that this phoney term is being taught??
~kjs
>
><< Sodom
> I named my penis "the light"
> (BTW "penis" is not a dirty word)
> >>
>
>whell any one on this mailing list see the light? (::chuckles a little::)
>
>i could have a long discussion about the etymology of the swears. when i
>turned thirteen four months ago i got a book bout the etymology of words.
it
>turns out fuck was action crusaders would do with their swords by stabbing
>someone in the stomach openning their gut.