Posted on 11/07/2011 9:59:34 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
One Broward County drug counselor has been fired and another suspended for an incident in which an "N-word" was used. Not necessarily "the N-word," but a word that might have been mistaken for it.
The two sanctioned workers told investigators the word was "niggardly." That word, meaning miserly, is of Scandinavian origin and has nothing to do with race, says an attorney for one of the disciplined workers.
But the county sided with a substance-abuse client who took offense. He filed a complaint saying a counselor called him "n----- dumb" in a June meeting with two workers at a county rehab center.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
My eighth-grade English teacher, Ms. Porges, was reprimanded for using the word “niggardly” in class. That was 27 years ago.
I will continue the use of the word niggardly to mean miserly, just as I continue the use of the word gay to mean
cheery, and queer to mean odd. I refuse to relegate my vocabulary to those who would wish to change it.
Someone is getting fired because a drug-addled “client” is so illiterate that he or she can’t understand standard English?
"I refuse to relegate my vocabulary to those who would wish to change it.""You mean "relinquish"? A bit like Rahm talking about people who are "perpetuating" crimes."
Especially to people who favor the word "relinquish".
I thought perhaps "surrender" would have been less awkward. Although it could be a portmanteau of "relinquish" and "delegate", a "new" word that just happened, in this case, to already possess its own definition.
Not the first time this has happened
I thought the same thing.
He said 'He filed a complaint saying a counselor called him "n---- dumb"...' Two adjectives might work with different punctuation: "n----, dumb". Niggardly is an adjective. The racial insult is a noun. In the phrase above are two adjectives not an adjective+noun. (Note that no one uses the so-called insult: noun+adjective. It is "dumb n----".)
Someone is lying. It sounds like the one who is reporting the insult.
I know who Niger Innis is. But thanks.
Relinquish would work, but I like relegate here...to diminish or assign to a lower level.
Our language has certainly been diminished over the last 50 years!
With all the repeat offenders in Chicago, maybe Rahm is correct with “perpetuate crimes”! Ha!
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