Fun_People Archive
29 Sep
Spellchecking -- Bits of Bullshit, ameegro!

Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 01:13:28 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Spellchecking -- Bits of Bullshit, ameegro!

From: eljefe@netcom.com (Jef Jaisun)

Oh, fer chrissakes! Just because a term happens to be offensive doesn't mean
it shouldn't be listed in a friggin' dictionary or spellchecker. Suppose I,
the incomparable El Jefe For Life, were writing a research paper on racism
in America - what if I wanted to describe how Mexican immigrants were treated
by the American government? What if I used "wetback" as an example? And how
many guys named "Witbeck" are there, anyway?

© 1995 Peter Langston