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To: Nickname

Both words are probably the same in English and spanish. It may not have been a language barrier so much as an ignorance barrier.


3 posted on 12/22/2007 4:08:40 AM PST by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: Wage Slave

Perhaps.

While this isn’t funny because someone is dead, it reminds of the guy in DC who ended up on the wrong end of the PC stick for using the word “niggardly” and resigning because people were offended by his “racial slur.”


9 posted on 12/22/2007 4:15:54 AM PST by Nickname
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To: Wage Slave
Both words are probably the same in English and spanish. It may not have been a language barrier so much as an ignorance barrier.

Homo...marica

Homosexual....homosexual.

Your guess is as good as mine.

32 posted on 12/22/2007 6:54:48 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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