Re: a question about names

Philip Newton scripsit:

> I've been learning a language called "English". However, I've just
> realised that there is no distinction between whether something
> written, or said, in the third person refers to a black person, a
> white person, or someone of a different skin colour. Could you please
> give me some suggestions as to how I might fix this problem?
No problem.  Read "A Person Paper on Purity in Language",
by William Satire (alias Douglas R. Hofstadter) at
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html .

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