RE: PSA: Slurs
April 23, 2019 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2019 at 9:22 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(April 23, 2019 at 8:49 am)LadyForCamus Wrote: Well, then don’t call any of our female membership a c*nt, and you won’t have anything to worry about, will you? I know that must break your heart.
Don't get me wrong - I know the main racial slurs and the homophobic ones, and I think I'm doing a reasonably good job avoiding them. But pocaracas raised a valid point - not all of the broad assortment of colorful and nuanced terms, that Americans coined in order to demean minorities, is immediately obvious to non-native speakers.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw