Re: just checking...
pcg <[email protected]>
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>> If I understand your response in the other current thread, the difference >> is that you don't see "sacred" as being inflammatory in the same way that >> "gay" is. > > FWIW, "sacred" wasn't the inflammatory term here; that's just a fairly (and > unfortunately) typical bit of American political boilerplate. > > "Blood libel" was the inflammatory term; it's the one that made all the > headlines. Well, "sacred" was the word that inflamed *me,* at least. And after the assertions here that loads of people refer to the constitution as sacred, I did a Google search for "constitution sacred" and came across a number of other folks who were also bothered by the usage. -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot