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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

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Old 2007-04-08, 22:07
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Question Negro?

Is "negro" considered a racsist term? I feel like it should be as only people of the baby boom generation or older tend to feel its acceptable. But is it really a bad thing to say, someone I've known for a few years (50 years old maybe) called a half-black guy "half-negro". I wasn't sure how the word is perceived in the black community and was wondering what everyone here thought.
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Old 2007-04-08, 22:17
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Say it all you want, and if someone calls you out on it say "pardon my spanish"
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Old 2007-04-08, 22:32
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I dunno, but what I do know is that I really like the term Porch Monkey, which I heard in Clerks2, and don't think that should be considered racist.
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Old 2007-04-08, 22:36
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It's not necessarily as racist as "nigger", but it's extremely archaic. You'll get weird looks, and it'll be uncomfortable. It's sort of like calling an Asian person a "mongoloid".
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Old 2007-04-08, 22:40
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yeah, thats what happend when she said it


but mongoloid...thats just funny as shit.
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Default Re: Negro?

Negro is old-fashioned, and it's weird.

It may be used in a slang ("MA NEGROWZ")
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Old 2007-04-09, 00:07
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It's sort of like calling an Asian person a "mongoloid".
How are we mongoloids? We have no where near the strength and we happen to own at math.

Lemmings would be more like it. We are small, conform to society pretty easily, all rook the same, and are suicide prone.
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Old 2007-04-09, 01:21
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Last I checked people in the middle east and mongolia wernt steryotypically good at math...hes not talking about far east there buddy
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Old 2007-04-09, 01:25
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ic... nevermind.
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Old 2007-04-09, 01:37
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I think it depends on context too. Personally, I think that it's not racist, unless you're intending it to be. I also think it's way too old to be used today. You're probably better off saying someone is "half-black."
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