Re: CHAT: SV: Re: CHAT: silly names, prepositions

And "bohunk" becomes all the more insulting when it also happens to be a
local slang term for the posterior as in "Sit your bohunk down and be
quiet!"  Ethnic slurrs in English tend to be pretty cruel things.

Adam


>From: John Cowan Reply-To: Constructed Languages List To:
>CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU Subject: Re: SV: Re: CHAT: silly names,
>prepositions Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:40:59 -0500
>
>Frank George Valoczy scripsit:
>
> > And I have been long curious about what Hungarians are called. I know in
> > Romanian they call us "bozgor".
>
>The traditional insult for Hungarians was "hunky", which is generally
>thought to be the source of the current African American slur "honky" for
>all whites. "Bohunk" has also been used; presumably the first syllable is
>from "Bohemian", as Bohemians and Hungarians are obviously interchangeable
>(:-)). I don't know for sure, but I suspect that both of these are
>obsolescent.
>
>--
>John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to
>do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter
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