As a person of mixed racial heritage who married a Scandinavian, I would like to apologize to the rest of the world for having married to a member of an inferior species.
Or something.
Can somebody find out what brand of coffee they serve to Fox’s employees? I also need to know if it comes from Colombia.
Biggirl is from New York City where there are many Black and Puerto Ricans mutts around. I’ve never heard negrito/a used in the same way nigger is. Perhaps in the sense of ‘that black one’ but never like 'that nigger".
Its not as offensive as “nigger” (I suppose since I’ve never seen somebody saying that outside a movie). But is IMHO extremely despective, I could not believe he really said that.
No word in Spanish is used in the same way as “nigger”, we lack the same racial history as America, for one. For lack of a similar word we make up for it by using “negrito”, a diminutive that, in the proper context, sounds like it diminishes the person.
Of course, in the proper context is also a very sweet expression, funny that. But as I said, I fail to see in what context the Honduran in question would mean it as a term of endearment.
Dominicans, for the most part, prefer “morenito(a)”, which I use with my daughter sometimes (we speak English at home), even though she is a blond and has blue eyes.
Not to be pedantic, though I love to do it, that’s an “accent acute.” A tilde is the “squigly line” (~) over a letter. Spanish does not use it over a vowel.
ETA: That’s “acute accent.” Funny how much French one can pick up while still not speaking enough French to order lunch.
Strange, I speak spanish and we always called it a tilde
or an accent interchangeably, yesterday a fellow nitpicker friend told me it was properly called tilde, now you say is not…
Intriguing…
To the wikitubes Robin!.
Ok, according to the english wikipedia you are right, and according to the spanish wikipedia we are both right.
Also according to the english wikipedia: “The tilded “n” (“ñ”, “Ñ”) developed from the digraph “nn” in Spanish. In this language, ñ is considered a separate letter called eñe (IPA ['eɲe]), rather than a letter-diacritic combination; it is placed in Spanish dictionaries between the letters n and o. In addition, the word tilde can refer to any diacritic in this language; for example, the acute accent in José is also called a tilde in Spanish.”
As for the squigly line ~ we usually call it with the technical term “that squigly line on top of the Ñ” (spanish only uses it over the N to create an Ñ)
Jim DeMint, that reliably stupid wingnut senator from South Carolina, implied that the US was on the verge of WWII Nazism or fascism, or something like that.
What a stinking asshole.
D-list wingnut celebrities are easy pickings, but worth a laugh anyway. Victoria Jackson, who went off the rails during the campaign, is bumping along the wooden ties not even realizing it.
First they instituted a minimum wage, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t making 25 cents a day.
Then they instituted food stamps, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t hungry.
Then they instituted direct transfer payments for single mothers of young children, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a single mother of a young child.
Then they instituted unemployment insurance, and I didn’t speak up, because I’m not unemployed.
Then they instituted social security for the elderly, and I didn’t speak up, because I’m not old.
And then they instituted universal single-payer health insurance, and there was no one left to speak up for me.
