The New Jargon
p. 90 · Read in the full issue
of New Guinea
“Unfortunately, New Guinea has joined those people who be lieve in calling a lavatory a ‘toilet’.
“In the new jargon, natives have officially become ‘indi genes’, or, more cumbersomely, ‘indigenous members of the population’. Gaols are ‘corrective institutions’; halfcastes, ‘persons of mixed race’; and white men, to the amazement and disgust of many, are now ‘expatriates’.
“/ have yet to find the native who considers the word native offensive, and to me they will remain natives, with all admira tion and respect.”
From “Itambu”, by David Selby.