tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post8314568800674438759..comments2024-03-26T14:44:37.985-04:00Comments on D-Ed Reckoning: Remedial education in collegeKDeRosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06853211164976890091noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-43267113921293185622006-11-20T20:22:00.000-05:002006-11-20T20:22:00.000-05:00Tracy, I know the process you're talking about, bu...Tracy, I know the process you're talking about, but can't think of the specific name for it.<br /><br />One cool word I recently discovered is retronym which is the use of a modifier to convey the original meaning of a word that time/progress has caused to change. For example, first we had the word guitar which described all stringed guitar-like acoustic instruments, then we invented electric guitars, so we had to go back and rename non-electric guitars to acoustic guitars.KDeRosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853211164976890091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-49016125082252649902006-11-20T19:57:00.000-05:002006-11-20T19:57:00.000-05:00Not just a "euphemism" - it's a word for how euphe...Not just a "euphemism" - it's a word for how euphemisms change, as the new euphemism acquires the negative connotations of the previous word - which was in the first case a euphemism itself.<br /><br />So we have undertaker, then mortician, then funeral director. (To pick a non-political example). Or all the different words for toilet - and toilet itself was a euphemism at some point. <br /><br />It's the word for the process I'm trying to remember.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-80343383853780563452006-11-20T19:33:00.000-05:002006-11-20T19:33:00.000-05:00I thought that article looked familiar.I thought that article looked familiar.KDeRosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853211164976890091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-86117653127543105772006-11-20T18:39:00.000-05:002006-11-20T18:39:00.000-05:00I apologize I did not realize till after I left th...I apologize I did not realize till after I left the post that the on at KTM was your postAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-40119150758107122832006-11-20T18:36:00.000-05:002006-11-20T18:36:00.000-05:00Please reference the following left at Kitchen Tab...Please reference the following left at Kitchen Table Math<br /><br />http://www.kitchentablemath.net/twiki/bin/view/Kitchen/TourDeForce<br /><br />Says it allAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-36103325327592891202006-11-20T16:44:00.000-05:002006-11-20T16:44:00.000-05:00newspeak.newspeak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-42911461912548955272006-11-20T14:46:00.000-05:002006-11-20T14:46:00.000-05:00euphemismeuphemismKDeRosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853211164976890091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25541994.post-62686236837004044852006-11-20T14:41:00.000-05:002006-11-20T14:41:00.000-05:00I noticed the paragraph
But it's best not to say "...I noticed the paragraph<br /><i>But it's best not to say "remedial education" around Cain, EKU's director of transition and university services in developmental education. She insisted recently that the term "remedial education" not only stigmatizes students, it's just flat-out wrong.</i><br /><br />There's some term, isn't there, for the replacement of one word as it becomes stigmatised by another, to which exactly the same thing happens? I can't recall it at the moment.<br /><br />I did notice a newspaper article in NZ saying that the Ministry of Education had a report talking about "additional needs" rather than "special needs" kids, as "special needs" had negative connotations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com