If "Canuck" is a derogatory term, would someone please inform the City of Vancouver they need to change the name of their Hockey team. Also please have someone contact AVRO Canada and tell them that they should not have called the CF-100, "Canuck".
"Frogs" refer to the fact that French people like to eat frogs legs. I never really did like frog legs and have stayed away from them for the last 20+ years. Besides here in Houston, we consume spiders (also known as crawdads or mudbugs, but an arachnoid by any other name, like crabs and lobsters.)
"Brits" and "Aussies" are not derogatory as they are just short forms for British and Australians. They only note I got was that I made the mistake of lumping either not enough or too many people under the term Brit.
Bill, I appreciate your concern for my lack of proper use of English. I am really trying very hard. :->
Kind regards,
Denys. . .
Denys Beauchemin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lancaster [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 1997 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re: Riddles with numbers
At 08:32 AM 7/30/97 +0200, Dr. Ferenc Nagy wrote:
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While I agree, in general, with the sentiments about Frank's post, is there
anything inherently degrading or racist about what he said? If that were the
case, I would be the first up in arms about it. I remember recent postings
about "Canucks", "Frogs", "Aussies" and "Brits" and nobody took exception. Is
this *really* any different?
If we are going to take offense about relatively harmless posts like Frank's,
maybe we ought to be up in arms for all the physically challenged centipedes
in the world. Is there such a thing as being over-sensitive???
Actually, if we were to criticize Frank's post, maybe it should be because it
just wasn't funny.
Finally, maybe we can give non-native English speakers like Frank (and by
extension,
Denys :-)) a break...
Bill Lancaster
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