Re: OT - DOGS

Griff Crump writes:

> Well, John, with full knowledge that I am stepping onto "terra infirma",
> I would say that, for all of their endearing qualities, there is still
> something about dogs that evokes a pejorative connotation when compared
> with whatever is favored. Witness the Cheyenne -- a proud and resilient
> people, yet described to Europeans by their neighbors, the Sioux, as
> "les chiens" -- "dogs". 

OTOH, did not those same Cheyenne refer to the members of their elite
warrior society as the Dog Soldiers?

In the interest of political correctness and to spare the feelings of
caninophiles could we not promote the substitution of a different term for
"dogs" to describe worthless seedlings? "Duds" might be a useful choice, as
anyone who slipped into the old way of thinking and started to utter the
offending term could put things right if they were agile of mind and nimble
of tongue. Besides, no one who could do anything about it ought to be
offended, as dud is derived from the Dutch word for "dead".

Jeff Walters in northern Utah  (USDA Zone 4, Sunset Zone 2)
cwalters@digitalpla.net
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