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Against the Slang Use of the Word Rape: A Langtonian-Birdian Reproach
(2014-12)
A disturbing trend that has surfaced recently in slang language is to use the word
rape in a joking or hyperbolic manner. An example of this is, "I raped that exam!" In
this paper, I argue that such use of the term rape ...