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Date: 5 Apr 89 20:40:20 GMT
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   Frans van Otten, Algemene Hogeschool, Amsterdam, in a paragraph
   dealing with the ongoing Searle topic, uses the following phrases:

 sic! >> It passes the TT.  This means: a human being can't tell the 
 sick!>> difference between a Chinaman [SIC!] and The Room.  The behaviour   

  His use of English suggests to me that he knows it well enough to be
  conscioussly or subconsciouslly aware that "chinaman" is a pejorative,
  a term invoking contempt.  Racism has no place in scholarship, buster!
  Holland is a small country which once had a big empire (Indonesia etc.)
  where some of the worst colonial abuses were committed!