Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Camilla Drefvenborg wrote:
> for certain, but consider this then; if someone were to shout "your
> school had a green bicycle-shed!", with accompanying tone and facial
> expression, how insulted would you feel? really? using a fact (true or
> not) which is not in any way culturally 'loaded' would, from me at
> least, only elicit ridicule.
>
Right on!  This is what I tried to get at with my Kash response.  The phrase
would elicit puzzled looks, not outrage.

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