Re: CHAT: Un-American activities, was Re: Ungrammaticalization?

"J. Barefoot" wrote:
>
> >From: Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
>
> > > They also liked using the adjectives "Russian", "Carpathian", and
> > > "Communist/Commie".  They referred to their class president as the Czar.
> >
> >Interesting.  My brother and I like to use "commie" as a joking term for
> >anything not American, as in "those Commie Canucks" :-)  My brother just
> >loves to use "(tree-huggin') hippie crap" as a jocular insult, for
> >anything, especially in the phrase "It's all a bunch of tree-huggin'
> >hippie crap" (yes, he did take that from Cartman on South Park)
This is a favorite of mine too... But I am a granola cruncher myself. :)

> >
>
> Didn't mean to offend anyone, Canadian, Scottish, Communist, or Gay. :-)
>
And especially not to offend the Scottish-Canadian Communist gays in our
midst. :)

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