sum formerly productive morphological process 3 weeks ago posted linguist 6954 query regarding status current english compounding process involving use combining form ending given us ethnic geograhical terms anglo saxon afro asiatic dano norwegian sociopolitical socioeconomic etc prompted query recent replacement label afro american fuller form african american appearance new edition college textbook term european american mean long referred euro american issue first came attention years ago column university illinois newspaper undergraduate woman african ancestry explicitly rejected label black grounds technically inaccurate skins people question merely darker shade brown europeans said went reject label afro american could nt find afro map linguist naturally wondered unaware general compounding process involved weeks ago work found authors abovementioned textbook sociology remember correctly meticulously replaced every instance label white previous edition expression european american began wondering seeing trend first would like thank following respondents lynne cahill lynneca cogs susx ac uk lee hartman ga5123 siucvmb siu edu larry horn lhorn yalevm cis yale edu james kirchner jpkirchner aol com kevin lemoine lemoine mail utexas edu general consensus seems ascendency full expression african american dated speech rev jesse jackson late 80 quote lee hartman think entire phenomenon attributed single individual alittle research could even determine precise date made announcement textbook case pristine etymology historical events giving rise word still alive memories living witnesses referring announcement made jackson effect felt term black many negative connotations wanted institute dignified term americans descended africans think jackson said explicitly briefly considered term afro american rejected grounds afro closely equated particular hairstyle nt want term would suggest merely americans wear afro hairdo second motivating consideration mentioned respondents reduction african afro involved formation older afro american might interpreted deemphasis might thus irritating offensive people regard african heritage matter pride quite plausible although nt consistent throughout general speech community case every english speaker every circumstance regards formation combining form word purpose coining compound involves deemphasis word referent instance regarding euro american definitely emphasize euro part another respondents pointed progovac recent rejection label serbo croatian favour serbian croatian grounds older traditional conven tional label places much emphasis serbian component somewhat parallel note one respondents suggested form euro might rejected least american obvious association expression eurotrash admit part experience accustomed usage europe tends connote cosmopolitan least pan european opposed narrowly nationalistic broader question addressed query appears evidence morphological process creating combining forms way english one two instantiations currently rejected people sociopolitical reasons past history process english presumably either borrowed heavily encouraged greek far heard little best steven dr steven schaufele 712 west washington urbana il 61801 217344 8240 fcosws prairienet org syntagmata linguarum liberemini humanarum nihil vestris privari nisi obicibus potestis