: On 17 October 2012 19:53, Dwight Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > To take it a little further, what if I said I got gypped. I think it > goes to gypsy's. Was it racist?
"Racist" is a word with competing definitions, and intent is a factor in some of them ... but yes, many people are offended by such use of the word "gyp", just as they would be by similar use of "jew" as a verb. -[]z. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
