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Offensive Words
Topic Started: Thursday, 16. September 2010, 19:54 (830 Views)
tomais

Just been chatting awao friendthis emerged; "Gypsy - four by two!"
Which one is offensive?
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tomais

Edited; Just been chatting to two friends-" Gypsy and Four by Two"
Which words,phrase would you consider offensive?
No prizes folks!
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Rose of York
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tomais
Sunday, 3. October 2010, 17:46
Edited; Just been chatting to two friends-" Gypsy and Four by Two"
Which words,phrase would you consider offensive?
No prizes folks!
Neither of them, I had to look for the definition of Four by Two, it is cockney rhyming slang for Jew.

Jews are called Jews. Gypsies are called Gypsies. Spaniards are called Spaniards.

Gyppo is a disgusting expression used by prejudiced people.
Keep the Faith!

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Angus Toanimo
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Sunday, 3. October 2010, 18:16
Gyppo is a disgusting expression used by prejudiced people.
But how many people consider it inoffensive to call Irish Travellers "tinkers" or "pikeys"? I've seen it used on a Catholic forum in the past.
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OsullivanB

Was it offensive when the Abbey Theatre presented Douglas Hyde's "The Tinker and the Fairy" in 1912. It was known as that although the authoritative text was in Gaelic. :angel:
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation." Herbert Spencer
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Mairtin
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Sunday, 3. October 2010, 19:04
But how many people consider it inoffensive to call Irish Travellers "tinkers" or "pikeys"? I've seen it used on a Catholic forum in the past.
"A" Catholic forum has nothing to do with this forum.

A search on this forum throws up 3 references to 'tinker' in the sense you are talking about* and all of them are fairly innocuous. A search for 'pikey' throws up nothing and I'm sure most people here would disapprove of its use.


(* i.e. ignoring it in the sense of messing around with something such as tinkering with the words of the Mass or under the bonnet of a car).
Edited by Mairtin, Sunday, 3. October 2010, 19:49.
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Angus Toanimo
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Had it been on this forum, don't you think I would have said? :rolleyes:
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Alpac

I am rarely offended by four letter words because saddly they seem to have become common language for many but there is a three letter word that terrifies me if any one suggests I go, GYM...
Edited by Alpac, Monday, 4. October 2010, 12:07.
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According to an old Dictionary a 'Tinker' is an itinerant mender of pots, pans and kettles etc.

Hence the counting of fruit stones by young ladies as to whom they will marry: 'Tinker, tailor, soldier etc....' and later; 'This year, next....'
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