I would just like to mention that I have no official position whatsoever on either the next new Quotables title, or announcements in Press.
'Potential'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Calling someone a retard, NSM with the inoffensive.
I'm not that fond of "spaz" myself, and part of that's because I did have a friend with CP in school. Using that term as a noun does set my teeth on edge. As a verb, less so.
Calling someone a retard, NSM with the inoffensive.
Yep, I don't think anyone here would argue otherwise. I sure hope.
I personally find "spazz" inoffensive -- I think of it as a mild insult on about a level with dweeb or dork. That said, if it is offensive in the U.K., I would rather have a different tile for the thread. I don't think the spazz/spazzed distinction would hold much weight with someone who *was* genuinely offended by the thread title, so I'd just as soon not go there.
I think a couple of people would but they're just retamorons.
Oh never mind -- this post = not as funny as I thought.
I'm all in the hey, let's err on the side of not offensive, shall we?
Which is to say, that it's one of the few terms remaining in my lexicon with offensive origin that I'm still trying to exclude. So, guilty in this corner. And hey, let's err on the side of not offensive!
How's about just 'Istanbul!'?
not Constantinople?
It really doesn't matter to the Turks.
Hmmm
"One Quote in all the World", maybe?
Or something less heavy-handed. Hmmm