***calling him "a lazy Walloon, a slave and an inferior creature,"***
Hey! YOU married him, sister!
I hope we never lose our First Amendment protections here and end up with speech police as they do in Europe and Canada!
The average American, if presented with a multiple-choice question about Walloons--
A. a French-speaking inhabitant of Belgium
B. an article of clothing in 18th-century Europe
C. an aquatic mammal
would just have to take a wild guess.
"Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons"
Even the Dutch know what the French are.
I don't care if they are supposes to be good for me ...I don't like what Brussels Spouts!
This would also violate Texas law, and subject to arrest for assault causing bodily injury (family violence). Not because of the spoken words, but for "scratching him". Leave a mark on someone in your household in Texas because of a physical encounter like that, and its Assault CBI. The article isnt clear on the details of the arrest, in in Texas it would be a prosecutable case.
And he responded, "How you English say ... I one more time-a unclog my nose in your direction, sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could out-clever us French folk with your silly knees-bent running about advancing behavior! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you heaving lot of second hand electric donkey bottom biters."
Belgium.
Less offensive words have been created in the many languages of the galaxy, such as joojooflop, swut and Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish.
The use of bad language can have unforseen circumstances. One example is the war between the G'gugvunts and the Vl'hurgs, caused by a casual remark made by Arthur Dent being mistaken as a terrible insult.
Simultaneous Babel Fish translation also means that any being can be rude to any other being without the need for extensive explanations. This has also started many wars.
The reason the Earth has been shunned for so long is also due to a language problem. On Earth, Belgium refers to a small country. Throughout the rest of the galaxy, Belgium is the most unspeakably rude word there is.
They're slaves and inferior creatures. All of them.
"Dutch-speaking Flemings and French-speaking Walloons are not only linguistically divided but also split socio-economically between a prosperous Flanders and a poorer Wallonia"
--- You can tell the moment you cross from the German part of Belgium to the fwench part. The towns go from clean to filthy. There is a distinct change in the attitudes of the people.
Can't we all just get along? ;)