On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 12:30 -0500, tedd wrote: > At 12:53 PM -0500 2/25/08, Andrés Robinet wrote: > >*gringos* started calling me Rob long ago. It's shorter, it's easier to > >pronounce and it's a short form for my last name (Robinet). > > Gringos? > > That brings up another subject, why is it that > Caucasians don't have any offensive slang words? > We are called by all sorts of slang (i.e., > cracker, white-bread, hunkie, and so on), but we > don't have something equivalent to the n-word/ > > No reply is needed -- just a comment.
Whitey and redneck come to mind. Paleface maybe once upon a time :) Shrug. I know in other languages there are can be slang words that defer to Caucasians. I just can't remember any of them. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
