Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I agree with Eric. I subscribe for valuable information about a system I enjoy using, and to improve my knowledge and technique, so I did not want to get involved in this particular discussion - BUT, her is my two cents. I am Chinese, live in Singapore, and have friends who are English, American, German and so on. It is as simple, and as pleasant as that. Thanks. At 12:39 AM 17/07/96 -0700, you wrote: >At 07:10 PM 7/16/96 -0700, you wrote: > >> It strikes me as particularly provincial and American to be so PC. >>All this talk about not using names to describe people of a different race > >I didn't mean that it was an intentional use of a slur, but here in the U.S. >it is a slur. And if there were slurs in England that aren't here, I woud >refrain from using them, becaues this is an international list. > >I used the word bugger when I lived in Canada, 'til someone told me what it >meant up there. Never used it again. > >=================== >Eric Welch >Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier >NPPA Region 11 JIB chair > >(D)inner not ready: (A)bort (R)etry (P)izza. > >