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Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-10 14:24:43
Dan Harkins wrote:
  Please. A ghetto is a homogeneous region for some sort of homogeneity.
That could be ethnic but "ghetto" is not necessarily some slur against
poor people or people of some ethnic background. In this case the ghetto
is going to be golfers, most likely affluent ones, in their plus-fours
and some plaid nightmare of an outfit.

  We've already lost the word "niggardly" and the phrase "chocolate
soldier", neither of which have ethnic or racial connotation, to
political correctness. 

If you happen to be norwegian and disinclined to pay the frost giants 
for their efforts on your construction project, they may apply it as a 
label. It does have an ethnic connotation, just not the one that's 
generally supposed... :/

Let's not toss out "ghetto" too.

  Dan.



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