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From: curtis@duck2.ingr.com (Curtis Sieber)
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Subject: Re: NEW TERMINOLOGY
Keywords: positive
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Date: 8 Nov 90 23:22:44 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.011307.9998@cs.ucla.edu>,
Top.Gun@f462.n204.z1.fidonet.org (Top Gun) writes:
|> I'd like to propose some new (I think) terminology.  I first ran into this
|> in Dublin, Ireland, and I quite like the sound of it.  The term is
|> Body Positive, 'BP'.  It is used in place of the term HIV+.  I believe it
|> puts forth positive imagery of a disease that is devastatingly negative to 
|> most of the world.

Funny thing... I really think that this is the *first* slang term I've 
heard for anything AIDS-related. Either that, or my brain isn't 
functioning well again... The closest we get to this sort of thing in 
Huntsville is merely to refer to HIV+ people (in any phase of the disease) 
as 'positives'. Even the support group here is called "Positive People". 
It's not really "slang", rather just a truncation of HIV+, which is an
acronym itself. Are we getting a little far off course (a term derived from
a truncation which was derived from an acronym of a medical term) ?

Any other interesting "newspeak" language revisions out there? (-:

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