ate: Mon, 17 Jun 96 11:58:59 PDT From: "Peter G. Neumann" Subject: About the American Hyphen Society Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 08:35:04 -0400 >From: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic) To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com [>FROM: Yucks Digest Wed, 12 Jun 96 Volume 6 : Issue 6] spaf@cs.purdue.edu (Gene "Chief Yuckster" Spafford), to whom it was Forwarded-by: kole@hydra.convex.com (John P. Kole) >From: masson@convex.com (Bob Masson) About the American Hyphen Society The American Hyphen Society is a community-based, not-for-profit, grass-roots consciousness-raising/education-research alliance that seeks to help effectuate the across-the-board self-empowerment of wide-ranging culture-, nationality-, ethnicity-, creed-, gender-, and sexual-orientation defined identity groups by excising all multiculturally-less-than-sensitive terminology from the English language, and replacing it with counter-hegemonic, cruelty-, gender-, bias-, and, if necessary, content-free speech. The society's motto is "It became necessary to destroy the language in order to save it". Its headquarters are in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. [Walla-Walla would do nicely for a west-coast mail-drop. Readers who recall my 1 April 1996 excerpt from my Hyphenater's Handbook (RISKS-17.95) may find this old item interesting. PGN]