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- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2021 20:51:44 +0000
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Re "Moor" as a Euro slur, there's this: https://wp.nyu.edu/sjpearce/2016/10/31/not-a-moor-exactly/ Maghrebi (to me at least!) is more neutral, as it basically means from the western part (of the Arab word, that is) -- in a general, non exclusionary way. It encompasses, as a descriptive term, many ethnicities and nationalities in the North West of Africa. But yes, it is an Arabic word, so maybe some might have an issue with that -- as the root of it is aghrab, or strangers, but also meaning The West, as in El Gharb. To further muddy the linguistico-math waters, there's also this https://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2020/03/the-latest-in-language-confusion-morocco-switches-back-from-arabic-to-french/ Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 at 10:20 AM, Shervin Afshar ***@***.***> wrote: > ***@***.***(https://github.com/maurusian), ***@***.***(https://github.com/gounaman). I do appreciate your comments. If you'd be so kind to cite the literature your statements are based on, I will review the section and terminology in that light. Thank you. > > — > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly, [view it on GitHub](https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/131#issuecomment-866880203), or [unsubscribe](https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKU6YLP4H4E7WFL43LODST3TUHUTXANCNFSM4DTL7YIA). -- GitHub Notification of comment by gounaman Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/alreq/issues/131#issuecomment-867149326 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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