Re: [tied] Re: Warning to list: Race and anthropology

From: Danny Wier
Message: 7052
Date: 2001-04-10

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From: Anthony Appleyard [mailto:MCLSSAA2@...]
Sent: Monday, 09 April, 2001 6:03 AM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [tied] Re: Warning to list: Race and anthropology

Is there a rule against the word "Caucasian", or not? This word is
asterisked out in one message title in the new Nostratic list!  
 
Oh that was me. I was being facetious about another post on [tied].

 >  As regards "false positives", e.g. I should point that in Britain, 
 >  where there are now many Muslim immigrants, an automatic blanket block 
 >  against NAZI*, where the star is a wildcard, would also causae 
 >  annoyance by blocking the fairly common Arabic / Muslim name Nazir. 
 
I also found in a bibliography at the end of an article on Arabic, and there was a citation for a writer (German I think), whose last name just happened to be the "F-word" with umlaut over the U.