First known example of political correctness was Re: Language-generating software (was Re: Replies to my

At 15:47 13.1.2003 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
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>First known example of political correctness:   John Cowan
>"After Nurhachi had united all the other        http://www.reutershealth.com
>Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
>Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643)       jcowan@reutershealth.com
>issued an order that the name Jurchen should       --S. Robert Ramsey,
>be banned, and from then on, they were all         _The Languages of China_
>to be called Manchus."
Not at all the first known example.  The one in the sig below is even from
Roman times!

For the Latin challenged it means "They make a wilderness and call it peace".



/BP 8^)>
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B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.net (delete X)

         Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant!
                                             (Tacitus)

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