Political correctness and linguistic improbability
I can’t wrap my tongue around ‘African-American’. I usually end up with ‘Afro-American’, which is apparently somehow more remarked upon as a mistake than ‘black’.
I can’t wrap my tongue around ‘African-American’. I usually end up with ‘Afro-American’, which is apparently somehow more remarked upon as a mistake than ‘black’.
Swear words do this amazing thing in language, that no other category of words does quite as well, or with as much versatility.