Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 13:05:14 -0400 From: Sylvia Keys Subject: Re: the dictionary of stereotypes African Queen (female who looks good), African King (a male who looks good) On Fri, 6 Oct 1995, Anton Sherwood wrote: > > From: vitale[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]dectlk.ENET.dec.com > > Subject: Request for ethnic terms > > > > There is a "linguistics" issue which readers of this discussion group > > could probably help me with. I'm writing a dictionary and some papers > > on the lexicalization of ethnic expressions. I began working on this > > 14 years ago. I've been collecting some ethnic expressions such as > > Mexican Standoff, Dutch Courage, Chinese Firedrill, French Fries, > > Swedish Ivy, etc. > > > > I have a large number of these words and phrases (450pp single-spaced) > > but the number of languages is small relative to the number of major > > languages (approx. 6500) spoken in the world today. > > > > If you or friends and colleagues who are native speakers of or > > specialists in various languages can think of any, I'd appreciate a > > list of these. >