CC1 is a great guy, but the title he put on this thread is classless, tasteless, and ignorant. (Deacon's use of "Frenchie" isn't much better.)
On this side of the border, the epithet that he used is about as acceptable as the "N" word is on your side.
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Originally Posted by Michael Phelps
I have an engineer working for me who is from Newfoundland. I asked him about the term, and he said that it was an insult, but nowhere NEAR the "n" word. He likened it to calling Southern people "rednecks", but when he read the responses here by a couple of folks, he said, "They are flying off the handle. They're making way more of this than a French person would".
I tend to agree.
I think original post, and the thread title, reflected a feeling of pro-American euphoria, (and some anti-French nationalism mixed in) that a lot of us felt when we saw how the race turned out.... but in a fun sort of way. The French had talked trash about our boys, and we beat them!.. and it felt good! We would have been happy just because America won, but the fact that the French had talked trash about our team just made it an even sweeter victory. So I think for a lot of us, it was an "in your face" moment, but in a competitive, fun, let's-go-USA kind of way... not in a mean-spirited kind of way.
I don't believe the word was being used as an epithet. I think some folks are making a lot more of this than we really need to.
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I think original post, and the thread title, reflected a feeling of pro-American euphoria, (and some anti-French nationalism mixed in) that a lot of us felt when we saw how the race turned out.... but in a fun sort of way. The French had talked trash about our boys, and we beat them!.. and it felt good! We would have been happy just because America won, but the fact that the French had talked trash about our team just made it an even sweeter victory. So I think for a lot of us, it was an "in your face" moment, but in a competitive, fun, let's-go-USA kind of way... not in a mean-spirited kind of way.
I don't believe the word was being used as an epithet. I think some folks are making a lot more of this than we really need to.
I used the word epithet in this sense: "An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase." And, on this side of the border, that's exactly what it is.
I used the word epithet in this sense: "An abusive or contemptuous word or phrase." And, on this side of the border, that's exactly what it is.
Bear with us on this side of the border then, please..........we WON!
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I think original post, and the thread title, reflected a feeling of pro-American euphoria, (and some anti-French nationalism mixed in) that a lot of us felt when we saw how the race turned out.... but in a fun sort of way. The French had talked trash about our boys, and we beat them!.. and it felt good! We would have been happy just because America won, but the fact that the French had talked trash about our team just made it an even sweeter victory. So I think for a lot of us, it was an "in your face" moment, but in a competitive, fun, let's-go-USA kind of way... not in a mean-spirited kind of way.
I don't believe the word was being used as an epithet. I think some folks are making a lot more of this than we really need to.
TR, my only point is that if a word is routinely and widely used as an epithet, and it is a word that you don't necessarily need to use...why use it in reference to the same people to whom people use it as an epithet (if that makes any sense).
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