Stephen Black wrote:
> 2. Someone who is dull, insensitive, heartless"
>
> I leave it to you, gentle Reader, to determine whether I intended
> meaning 1 or meaning 2 in my pun.
>
> BTW, Rosten has an interesting discussion concerning how the
> pejorative meaning 2 developed. He summarizes it with the
> understatement: "Experience has made many Jews feel that Gentiles are
> not gentle".
19 centuries of Christian love. . .
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