Comments on: English, Motherfucker! Do You Speak It?

By: Sidney Gigantino

Sidney Gigantino — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:56:24 +0000

Time to start s.3 of madmen with some movie salad. alllll right.

By: casE

casE — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 07:08:55 +0000

i love this and agree whole heartedly. it seems that words are being used incorrectly so much by public figures in many diff. careers…politics..music…keen celebrities that are put on the spot w/a question, then its spread 2 other ppl that believe what the tv says & somehow what was once incorrect is now acceptable due 2 ignorance. yet the “linguists” let it slide so ppl dont 4get about oxfords. [which i hear the most about when some moronic word or phrase had been added] & as 4 harry reid, i feel like he couldn’t have been more “PC” about it. sterotypes are what they are for a reason. & it goes 4 all diff. races,religions,etnicities. streotyping due 2 the way some1 looks is diff. than sterotyping the way someone acts. & this is coming from a garlic snappin guido that talks w/my hands & eats pasta @ least once a week. so salude or 4 u mazel tov [i believe] but either way i’d drink 2 that! great read!

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:17:21 +0000

I fucking love this.

When I was in an English class in college, we were discussing the book “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe. A woman in my class kept talking about the “African American” writer… I corrected her (“African”) three times, each receiving a dirtier look than the one before, until I said “Look, he was born in AFRICA– there’s nothing AMERICAN about him”. People are so fucking scared of being politically incorrect that it makes me nauseous.

By: hammie

hammie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:20:01 +0000

Don’t worry Ann and FashionH: I had a lovely old screech at the old bastard.

And BTW: One of my favourite films is Hairspray in which John Travolta doesn’t actually suck.

I love Negro day. I wish everyday could be Negro Day! xx

By: fashionherald

fashionherald — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:11:23 +0000

whoops, should have said “rap speak”

By: fashionherald

fashionherald — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:09:04 +0000

I was a little taken aback by Reid’s negro comment, but I’m more appalled by Hammie’s story. WTF??? Or, in hip-hop speak, Negro, get your f*&king hands off my kid.

By: annemarie

annemarie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:47:21 +0000

i meant BLACK children

By: annemarie

annemarie — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:46:45 +0000

I hate the word police. I think people should quit getting their knickers into a twist over racist words and instead go after people like those bitches in Philadelphia who didn’t want blank children to swim with their white spawn. I still can’t get over the fact that NOTHING happened over that beyond a bit of mild public outrage. I think they should have been charged and put in prison.

In South Africa Hate Speech is a crime, but Hate Speech is not some dumb-ass idea of the “politically incorrect.” Rather, it is speech that incites violence. If a distinction like that was to be made here, Harry Reid’s words would not have been reprimanded, but those of the Philadelphia bitches would.

Re: the first part of your post:
I no longer know what “random” means. I had an argument with a friend over what it meant (he thought it meant the exact opposite of what I did) and so we went to the OED to get to the bottom of things. Guess what? The OED said we were both right.

By: Jill

Jill — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:53:10 +0000

Black vs. big nosed dirty Jew are like comparing apples to oranges.

By: arline

arline — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:27:06 +0000

Damnit! I just wrote three paragraphs, and went to delete one word, and deleted the whole thing,

Words are not the only way to communicate, but are the easiest to illustrate a thought or idea, Body language, art, music, dance, communicate in ways that words can’t. Sometimes unspoken communication is more powerful, but to understand it, you have to process more deeply.

Semantics are important, but it is easy for me to get caught up in them. I definitely agree with you, that words and phrases, should not be used as their opposite. There is a lot in the vernacular, that makes me cringe, and I have to grit my teeth when I hear it.

Intention, more than anything, can determine whether something is offensive.
Hate comes across no matter what words a person chooses. Conversely, so does love and good will. That is not to say that words don’t matter, I believe they do.

I was at the coffee shop tonight, and I overheard a conversation between two people, a male and female, who had different skin colors from each other. The guy was describing someone to the woman. In part of his description, he said “black guy”. The guy was not offensive in his despription, and the woman was not offended. Both of them were laughing and enjoying the conversation with each other.

People can be very sensitive and make an issue out of anything. How are we supposed to describe certain things?

If the guy who attacked you happened to be white, you would have said so, I’m sure. I know would have.

What is the answer??? It is unanswerable.