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Osias wrote:The only time I saw that word was by a Jew blogger, I think.
linguoboy wrote:Osias wrote:The only time I saw that word was by a Jew blogger, I think.
NB: The use of “Jew” as a modifier is considered highly offensive. The preferred term is “Jewish”.
linguoboy wrote:Well, there’s a general tendency in English for nouns to be more pejorative than adjectives. (Hence the tendency to replace them with modifying phrases, e.g. “the disabled” > “disabled people” > “people with disability”.)
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