Re: Blackboards (was Re: Untouchables [Andreas J., please read])

Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Staving Roger Mills:
>
>> Muke Tever wrote:
>> >
>> > Has the word "chalkboard" not appeared in this thread at all?
>> That's what
>> > they got called here...
>> >
>> Probably coined by some administrator who thought "we can't call them
>> blackboards if they're green.....and greenboard doesn't sound right"
>> :-))).
>
> More like the work of some political correctness monkey who decided that
> "blackboards" was racially offensive. Surely it's more offensive to
> automatically assume that people are so easily offended?
> (ridet, annat, currit).
I think it's more likely that "chalkboard" was intended as a generic
term for blackboards and green chalkboards.

My only evidence is that blackboards were called blackboards and
chalkboards interchangeably in school when I was growing up in Berkeley,
and if anybody was going to get offended it would be somebody here.
Also, I never heard of a green chalkboard being called a blackboard.

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