Word: bowdlerizers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bowdler" intelligent enough to attend a performance of Hamlet should realize that "Polack" is simply the Polish word for "Pole" and not the ethnic slur the Polack joke craze has made...
There is, of course, something grimily banal and automatic about many of the racial stereotypes that salt the language. Yet sometimes they add a bit of savor. Are "French leave" and "Indian giver" to be expurgated? And what Bowdler at a performance of Hamlet will rise in protest when Horatio says, "He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice"? Should that be "Polish persons...