Re: Exonyms [Re: English syllable structure]
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:23 |
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:04:16 -0500 Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
writes:
> Yes. I'm telling you I am offended by it. I'm not a Yankee. I
> don't like
> the term even whenit is applied to people from the New England area
> to which
> it most properly applies. If you'd grown up hearing the kind of
> preducial
> statement that word was usually included in that I grew up
> hearing,you
> wouldn't care for the word either. To me, it belongs in the same
> emotional category as nigger and spick.
-
To lighten up this thread, i'd just like to mention that a friend of mine
who has one Jewish parent and one Colombian parent recently referred to
himself as a "spike". get it?
-Stephen (Steg)
"iiiiIiiii"