n-word
You can just see how excited CNN was to do this, to celebrate the Journalistic Scoop of a 103-year-old black lady still driving her car with hip-hop rap lyrics, about driving cars! But then that rap song included the word “nigga,” so CNN’s fluff story about a nice old lady driving a car somehow managed [...]
Linguistic smart-person Jay Nordlinger of National Review‘s The Corner — the #1 Internet blog — sees the future, of words, in a post today: “It could be that conservatives will ‘own the insult’ and use ‘teabagger’ as a badge of honor. It could become some proud conservative N-word. President Reagan said, ‘I’m a contra, too.’ [...]
