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| tom66:
Master/Servant makes more sense. But probably too close to history too, after all at some point black people have probably been underpaid servants. |
| madires:
If your preferred beverage is black coffee or black tea you'll will be in trouble soon. :scared: |
| TimFox:
In New York City, they drink "regular coffee", which there means "with cream and sugar". Elsewhere, "regular" is the opposite of "decaf". See what happens to precision when technical terms mutate randomly? |
| 0culus:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2020, 10:23:42 am ---Indeed. Ushering in an age of newspeak. Misguided good intentions can do more harm than anything. Edit: oh and fuck “y’all” as a replacement for anything. Idiocracy here we come. --- End quote --- Clearly, you aren't from Texas. :-DD All y'all are gonna be converging. >:D |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2020, 10:23:42 am ---oh and fuck “y’all” as a replacement for anything. Idiocracy here we come. --- End quote --- Mocking Texans like that is deeply offensive. Cancel the perpetrator for life. Actually, most of the suggested substitutes just trade one kind of offence for another, while reducing clarity. Maybe the reduction in clarity is the real goal here. |
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