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24 August 2006, 03:34 PM
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Gosh - what a deep thinker you are - that must have taken ages with your cut and paste function.
For the hard of thinking, 'swastika' in this instance is a homonym. A word (and an icon in this case) that means two completely different things in two completely separate contexts. You right in that one of the contexts would find the other offensive - but there is no semantic connection between the two.
Your abbreviation and the adjective Pakistani are two separate words describing the same thing in different contexts. The context is that one is descriptive and the other is derogatory.
Paki: Brit, slang, derogatory. n. pl. Pakis 1. a Pakistani or person of Pakistani descent. 2. (loosely) a person from any part of the Indian sub-continent. adj 3. Pakistani or of Pakistani descent. 4. (loosely) denoting a person from the Indian subcontinent. (Collins)
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For the hard of thinking, 'swastika' in this instance is a homonym. A word (and an icon in this case) that means two completely different things in two completely separate contexts. You right in that one of the contexts would find the other offensive - but there is no semantic connection between the two.
Your abbreviation and the adjective Pakistani are two separate words describing the same thing in different contexts. The context is that one is descriptive and the other is derogatory.
Paki: Brit, slang, derogatory. n. pl. Pakis 1. a Pakistani or person of Pakistani descent. 2. (loosely) a person from any part of the Indian sub-continent. adj 3. Pakistani or of Pakistani descent. 4. (loosely) denoting a person from the Indian subcontinent. (Collins)
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24 August 2006, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Rannoch
Gosh - what a deep thinker you are - that must have taken ages with your cut and paste function.
Originally Posted by Rannoch
Paki: Brit, slang, derogatory. n. pl. Pakis 1. a Pakistani or person of Pakistani descent. 2. (loosely) a person from any part of the Indian sub-continent. adj 3. Pakistani or of Pakistani descent. 4. (loosely) denoting a person from the Indian subcontinent. (Collins)
24 August 2006, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by davegtt
Brilliant, slag of someones thinking skills and cut and paste ability, then in the very same post cut and paste something from the Collins dictionary.
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24 August 2006, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by davegtt
Brilliant, slag of someones thinking skills and cut and paste ability, then in the very same post cut and paste something from the Collins dictionary.
I typed it with real fingers.
24 August 2006, 04:01 PM
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Did you now? Dont you think it was pointless when its twice as quick to cut and paste?
http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchang...aspx?word=paki
Pretty much word for word. The only bit worth typing was the credit to Collins you gave to Collins at the end
Originally Posted by Rannoch
Paki: Brit, slang, derogatory. n. pl. Pakis 1. a Pakistani or person of Pakistani descent. 2. (loosely) a person from any part of the Indian sub-continent. adj 3. Pakistani or of Pakistani descent. 4. (loosely) denoting a person from the Indian subcontinent. (Collins)
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Pretty much word for word. The only bit worth typing was the credit to Collins you gave to Collins at the end
24 August 2006, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by KiwiGTI
And the **** swastika is round the opposite way to the traditional one the Indians have IIRC
The Indian version usually has the 'legs' rotating left and the European version the 'legs' rotate to the right.
24 August 2006, 04:03 PM
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24 August 2006, 04:05 PM
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Originally Posted by davegtt
Did you now? Dont you think it was pointless when its twice as quick to cut and paste?
http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchang...aspx?word=paki
Pretty much word for word. The only bit worth typing was the credit to Collins you gave to Collins at the end
http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchang...aspx?word=paki
Pretty much word for word. The only bit worth typing was the credit to Collins you gave to Collins at the end
24 August 2006, 06:21 PM
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Originally Posted by jasey
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25 August 2006, 09:04 PM
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Originally Posted by SwissTony
aye i know mate, i used to live in bangkok
anyway you seem well informed
anyway you seem well informed
26 August 2006, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by lightning101
When will they apologise for the mis-placed apostrophe 
Absolutely - I am incensed.
And what lily-livered mealy-mouthed nobber decided on a tiny 's' on the end?
They didn't have the courage of their convictions, and that makes my blood boil.
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