Linno! ur a smart cookie

have to say

Linno
18/09/2009 6:41:30 PM haha this is still going?
Isn't this argument rather pointless though, as offense is attached to a word by a user or a recipient, so it depends on their belief. It doesn't depend on the 'actual' word, or even the original meaning of the word.


is the smartest post in the entire thread. I have heard the word pakeha used offensivly many times. Doesnt really matter what the original meaning is.

Calling someone "a gay idiot" for example 20 years ago had a totally different meaning then it would today.

Though in saying that carieann is still a twit and of course red neck fishman and his civil war appeared

Thanks, I wondered if I was the only one who saw it that way since no one acknowledged my view.
Either that or I did a crap job of explaining myself.
Didn't seem like there was much critical thinking going on from the people on either side of the argument, so I was compelled to post.

I refuse to accept the use of the word gay to describe those with sodomite and carpet-munching tendencies.

Lynz wrote:I refuse to accept the use of the word gay to describe those with sodomite and carpet-munching tendencies.

As long as they're happy, then the title is apt.

Waireka wrote:

Lynz wrote:I refuse to accept the use of the word gay to describe those with sodomite and carpet-munching tendencies.

As long as they're happy, then the title is apt.

True.