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	Emil Amok: Using the ‘N’ Word Forgive me for using the phrase “the ‘N’ word.” Besides, you know exactly what I mean. “Neighbor,” right? Oh, I know, you probably thought I was going to call you something else. Like “numbskull.” Or maybe some other word. Like this one in Yiddish — nudnik, which by the way has nothing to do with being nude. You can be fully clothed and a nudnik and fit into the working definition. That would be, to quote my well-used, dog-eared Funk and Wagnells: a “pestiferous and annoying person.” Here’s another one of those pestiferous types for you: any person who insists on using the phrase, “the ‘N’ word.” What is “N”? Is this English or algebra? COMPLETE STORY...		Slippery Slurs: Words that hurt perpetuate negative stereotypes, says one linguist (in National News) Treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Center for victims of torture opens in San Jose (in Bay Area News) (Look): tom & john ask what the Mission is (in A&E)

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