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To: NMEwithin

I guess some interpret “gentlemen” to have racial connotation!


3 posted on 07/27/2009 11:37:33 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob
I guess some interpret “gentlemen” to have racial connotation!

That's just the way people butcher the language nowadays. "Gentleman" is just a three-syllable word for "man." Sounds a lot more high-falutin'!

8 posted on 07/27/2009 11:40:45 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("Baldrick, to you the Renaissance was just something that happened to other people, wasn't it?")
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