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Is using this N-word (niggardly) a firing offense?
South Florida Sun-Sentinel ^
| November 7, 2011
| Michael Mayo
Posted on 11/07/2011 9:59:34 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
My eighth-grade English teacher, Ms. Porges, was reprimanded for using the word “niggardly” in class. That was 27 years ago.
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:20:56 AM PST
by
RightFighter
(It was all for nothing.)
To: stormhill
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:34:04 AM PST
by
Tax Government
(Raise Cain over Obama. Herman Cain, that is...)
To: RightFighter
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.
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:41:54 AM PST
by
Fireone
(Heating the tar and readying the feathers.)
To: Fireone
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.
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:47:05 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: ConservativeStatement
Someone is getting fired because a drug-addled “client” is so illiterate that he or she can’t understand standard English?
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:51:48 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: aruanan; Fireone
"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.
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:55:59 AM PST
by
The Theophilus
(Obama's Key to win 2012: Ban Haloperidol)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
11/08/2011 4:58:29 AM PST
by
Roccus
(Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
To: The Theophilus
"I refuse to relegate my vocabulary to those who would wish to change it."
Especially to people who favor the word "relinquish".
I thought perhaps "surrender" would have been less awkward.
"Relegate" could never have been confused for "surrender."
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posted on
11/08/2011 6:12:30 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: Fresh Wind
Niggardly dumb? That makes no sense. 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.
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
11/08/2011 7:21:31 AM PST
by
Clint N. Suhks
(You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich: Abraham Lincoln)
To: Tax Government
His first name is Niger; MSNBC misspelled it.I know who Niger Innis is. But thanks.
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posted on
11/08/2011 7:42:21 AM PST
by
South40
(To Tear Down Herman Cain is to aid Mitt Romney)
To: aruanan
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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posted on
11/08/2011 10:35:50 AM PST
by
Fireone
(Heating the tar and readying the feathers.)
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