I am reading a book.
It is a very good book.
The name of the book is “Going Nucular” by Geoffrey Nunberg.
This guy is great. The book is a collection of essays on language and how it reflects changing cultural values and sensibilities.
For example, the word “Caucasian” as he points out, actually means “white”. The etymology of the at word refers tot he people that stepped off of Noah’s Ark, in the Caucus mountains. What “Caucasians” actually refers to is “European Americans”.
There are a lot of more of these pearls in the book.