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November 26, 2005

Words Fail, Nail, or Jail (Depending on the Editor)

By Donna Locke
Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform

Well, I guess this Thanksgiving beats the time my family went to the all-the-frog-legs-you-can-eat place and was asked not to return.

Meanwhile, back at the blogs . . .

A couple of related California newspapers, The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and The San Bernardino County Sun, host the Beyond Borders Blog on immigration issues. Here's part of a recent post by Conor Friedersdorf, the blogger-columnist:

"In a recent editorial the Long Beach Press Telegram complained that the immigration debate is filled with semantic shenanigans. 'Politicians and advocates resort to throwing around loaded euphemisms intended to spin or scare the citizenry,' the editorial board charged.

When the immigration debate falters Beyond Borders Blog rushes to the rescue like James Bond to a cold martini - both shaken and stirred to action by misleading jargon I'll now suggest a linguistic frame for this sometimes embittered debate. . . ."

(I did not eat any frog legs, by the way.)


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