Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucla-cs!news From: Bill_Barrick@d10.niaid.pc.niaid.nih.gov (Bill Barrick) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Subject: (2731) Re: NEW TERMINOLOGY Message-ID: <1990Nov9.213344.18951@cs.ucla.edu> Date: 9 Nov 90 20:21:45 GMT Sender: news@cs.ucla.edu (Mr. News) Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department Lines: 52 Approved: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) Note: non-commercial reproduction. Nntp-Posting-Host: squid.cs.ucla.edu Archive-Number: 2735 The jargon has always been there. How quickly we forget "Wrath of God," "Gay Plague," "Gay Flu," "Gay Bowel Syndrome," etc. bb ---------------------- Replied Message Body ---------------------- Date: 11-8-90 8:46pm From: {aids@cs.ucla.edu}:unix:niaid To: bill barrick:10:niaid Subj: (2731) Re: NEW TERMINOLOGY Also-to: multiple recipients of list aids -------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: curtis@duck2.ingr.com (Curtis Sieber) Newsgroups: sci.med.aids Approved: ddodell@stjhmc.fidonet.org (David Dodell) Subject: Re: NEW TERMINOLOGY References: <1990Nov8.011307.9998@cs.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@b11.ingr.com Reply-To: curtis@duck2.b11.ingr.com Date: 8 Nov 90 23:22:44 GMT Organization: Mabel's Beauty Salon and Chainsaw Repair Keywords: positive Note: Copyright 1990 by Daniel R. Greening. Permission granted for Note: non-commercial reproduction. Archive-number: 2731 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? (-: O O O IB: Curtis Sieber O O O OlOlOl EMAIL: uunet!ingr!b11!duck2!curtis lOlOlO OlOlOl USMAIL: Rt 2 Box 551, Somerville, AL 35670 lOlOlO l l l VOICE: (205) 498-3206 (unlikely to reach me) l l l ALT: curtis@duck2.b11.ingr.UUCP <]v Via SCI.MED.AIDS => AIDSNEWS gateway / aids@cs.ucla.edu