RE: Is slack a private social club and other issues my sorry ass has landed itself in
April 20, 2019 at 4:56 am
(April 20, 2019 at 3:30 am)Belaqua Wrote:(April 20, 2019 at 2:59 am)pocaracas Wrote: touchy feely
If a very large number of Americans feel they are being disparaged by the word, and want white people to stop using it, are they overly touchy feely? Are they at fault somehow? Too sensitive, maybe?
Should we go ahead and use it, because, you know, fuck everybody else's feelings, and all that?
No large number of Americans owns the English language. What they want and what they get need not be the same.
And the keyword on my text was nuance... Something you seem to have missed.
I don't expect a white person from the south of the US to be using the word with the same intent as an Asian person from the north of the US (as jorm is).
There are many many words used to insult and you don't see those being virtually banned due to "everybody else's feelings".
I started my previous post with an example of a different word that has the added bonus of carrying different connotations in the US and UK. Should douche also be banned from the language because a large number of Americans feel that they are being insulted and denigrated? Or is intent a thing that can be applied for this, but not for the other word?
