Kenm
August 30, 2015, 6:01pm
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Mean_Mr.Mustard:
I think these may fit:
Cop
Canuck
Nope. Canuck always was perfectly cromulent.
Johnny Canuck is a Canadian cartoon hero and superhero who was created as a political cartoon in 1869 and was later re-invented as a Second World War action hero in 1942. The Vancouver Canucks, a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League (NHL), currently use a hockey playing "Johnny Canuck" logo as one of their team logos. In addition, the Vancouver Canucks' American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbotsford Canucks, use it as their main logo.
Johnny Canuck is a fictional lumberja...
Methodist was also originally a derogatory term.
Post #5 . The point is that there is not alternative term for “Methodist.” “Wesleyan” has a big overlap, but generally covers more Evangelical or Holiness churches.
Jeff_Lichtman:
There’s a difference between a word’s origin and its meaning (denotative or connotative). “Nigger” is just a corruption of “negro,” which as you point out simply means “black,” yet it’s a terribly offensive word.
To me, “negro” is very old-fashioned. I suppose some people could take it as offensive because it seems like an attempt to roll back the clock (or calendar).
I’d almost always admonish my ex-wife not to use that word when we were speaking Spanish in the USA. But now I’ve got to ask, how do people in large, multi-ethnic areas deal with this? Blacks must hear “negro” quite a bit. Is it okay if it’s spoken in Spanish?
We dealt with it by using code words.
Balthisar:
I’d almost always admonish my ex-wife not to use that word when we were speaking Spanish in the USA. But now I’ve got to ask, how do people in large, multi-ethnic areas deal with this? Blacks must hear “negro” quite a bit. Is it okay if it’s spoken in Spanish?
Where is your wife from? In Panama, and I think some other Spanish-speaking countries, “negro” is frowned upon as a word to apply to people. The standard informal word for a black person is moreno/a , “dark.” However, the diminutive negrito/a is OK.
Colibri:
Where is your wife from? In Panama, and I think some other Spanish-speaking countries, “negro” is frowned upon as a word to apply to people. The standard informal word for a black person is moreno/a , “dark.” However, the diminutive negrito/a is OK.
It’s the same in the Dom. Rep.
I feel like there’s a lot of philosophy/science movements that came about this way but I can’t think of them.
Impressionists, sorta.
The Democratic Party’s donkey symbol.
Claverhouse:
Mob
Originally an insult by disdainful aristocrats or political thinkers, from latin: mobile vulgus , now just describes ordinary people in a group.
I wouldn’t call a normal group a mob. Only if they were angry or out of control.
Colibri:
Where is your wife from? In Panama, and I think some other Spanish-speaking countries, “negro” is frowned upon as a word to apply to people. The standard informal word for a black person is moreno/a , “dark.” However, the diminutive negrito/a is OK.
Mexico. There “moreno” means dark, but not African black people dark. Dark Brazilian-Indian footballers would be “moreno” but slave-descended footballers would be “negro.”
Kobal2
August 31, 2015, 10:26am
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“Warthog” or “Hog” for the A-10. Few people ever call it the Thunderbolt II, which is its actual designation.
Cowboy used to imply that the person was a cattle rustling outlaw.
Where’d you come across this?
Balthisar:
I’d almost always admonish my ex-wife not to use that word [negro] when we were speaking Spanish in the USA. But now I’ve got to ask, how do people in large, multi-ethnic areas deal with this? Blacks must hear “negro” quite a bit. Is it okay if it’s spoken in Spanish?
We dealt with it by using code words.
I quote this only because it relates back to my original question (and not because I am trying to pin down Balthisar ):
While Negro has fallen out of favor in the U.S., was Black originally a derogatory term back when Negro and/or Colored were acceptable?
Sioux. Agonquin for “speaker of a different language.”
Cheeseheads was the Illinois tourist term for Wisconsin residents.
Kenm
September 1, 2015, 5:18am
75
To be a Tory
The word “Tory” derives from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe; modern Irish tóraí: outlaw, robber or brigand, from the Irish word tóir, meaning “pursuit”, since outlaws were “pursued men”.[4][5] It was originally used to refer to an Irish outlaw and later applied to Confederates or Royalists in arms.[6] The term was thus originally a term of abuse, “an Irish rebel”, before being adopted as a political label in the same way as Whig.
I know the history, which is why I favour the term “Tories” over “Conservatives.”
In England,
“Corn” = cereal crop.
Well, the big Quaker house in central London has Quaker on its signs and its website uses the word Quaker constantly.
I’m sorry, but which state is (or was) the Cracker State ?
