David Linton is Professor Emeritus of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College as well as President of the New York State conference of the American Association of University Professors.
David Linton
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The M Word—In Multiplex
We don’t know where the coy linguistic practice of using-while-not-using so-called offensive words by appending the term “word” after its initial letter and preceded by “the”—as in “the N-word”; “the C-word”; “the F-word”; “the R-word”—came from. The practice functions in spoken and written speech the way the “bleep” does on television. Everyone presumably knows what […]
