DIRTY WORDS

A LANGUAGE WORTH CURSING

When humanservicespeak provides the consumer an appropriate placement, who's fooling who? All we've done is put the old lady away. Bad enough to be stuck in some hellhole, worse when they smile and call it home. Since we get nowhere reading their lips, let's mind their tongue.

"The emotional landscape surrounding the state's developmentally disabled community is littered with words and numbers that explode like land mines." — editorial March 14 in The Seattle Times regarding the possible closure of a state DD lockup

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR FEATURES

Power News
Quick Bites / Flashbacks................. 8
Life and Death Matters.................. 27

DIRTY WORDS

Mayer Shevin tells the story behind The Language of Us and Them ...........................10

Larry Biondi speaks with authority on being Shut Up, Shut Down .............................13

Hear what they’re saying when Word Has It ...............................................................14

What did we want them to call us? The Contest: Name Those People ........................16

In Britain, Mike Higgins is Lost in Translation .............................................................18

Peter Leidy conducts a sing-along, A Few Dirty Phrases and Words ..........................20

Lucy Gwin and Adolf Eichmann speak of Life Among the Erasermouths ..................21

Julie Reiskin questions well-meaning labels with The Dis-Labeled Quiz ....................23

Kathryn Cohan and Sylvia Caras say, Put In A Good Word: Transformation .............24

E. Neil Vanover remembers Stanley Milgram. Put In A Good Word: NO ..................25

Scott Chambers overhears Eloquence in Everyday Life ............................................. 26

 

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We're planning an issue remembering Justin Dart, the ADA, and other praiseworthy ghosts. But the folks whose articles are due and overdue seem to be avoiding your editor. Whatever else happens, you'll get a real Mouth.

 

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