Richard Quinn"There is a grimly Kafkaesque irony in a philologist patiently arguing before a disciplinary panel that a colleague’s use of language shouldn’t be wrenched from its setting but understood within the messy, unpredictable reality of human interaction, only for the university to strip his own words of context and investigate him for daring to mount that defence."
https://thecritic.co.uk/no-word-should-be-inherently-unsayable/
Having read that passage, now watch the stoning scene (#Jehovah) in #LifeOfBrian :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwFXGPRDu4
No word should be inherently unsayable | Freddie Attenborough | The Critic Magazine
The case of an academic at the University of Manchester who was suspended for using the n-word during a disciplinary meeting while defending a colleague’s context-specific use of language lays bare…