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La Diferencia entre Indocumentados y Illegales

Otro día una amiga de mi esposa nos preguntó la pregunta, "Cual es la diferencía entre 'indocumentados' y 'illegales'"

Y la respondí, "Depends on whether you're pro or con."

And we paused. Good line. Just shot it off the top of my head, but it's the only one that makes sense. With this linguistic dichotomy, we have a good example of how our approach to language (the duality, and I would say, "all-encompassing expansiveness" of English) has tackled this subject . . .

simply put: If you like 'em, they're "undocumented."

If you don't like 'em, they're "illegals."



Of coures, either term, to me, seems to neglect the fact that "THEY" are still "HUMAN BEINGS," but that's probably just my own liberal arts education coming out.

Oh well.

VG

posted by Verble Gherulous @ 5:26 AM