Carl_Bergstrom

All ya'll are right, a private message would have sufficed here where stephentoddpope was concerned. But I've seen this usage a dozen times here this month, and I really dislike it for exactly the reason that stephen points out in the previous post. So I figured I'd make my point where people would see it.

So yeah, he took the heat for the last dozen posts of this sort. Sorry, stephen. Thanks for being a good sport.

Tony, I think that stephentoddpope's above post makes it quite clear why this is not just PC-ism run amuck. To put another way, most of my memories of that particular word involve hearing it as an eight-year-old while standing next to my best friend (a Japanese American). It was always a prelude to severe ass-whoopin' by the "big kids." And let me tell you, according to those kids my friend had a "jap haircut" and a "jap lunchbox" and "jap books" and if he'd had a tree at home it probably would have been a "jap maple." So sure, I'm sensitive. But don't think that calling Pinus nigra a "n_ pine" makes it ok, just because you're talking about a tree.

Or just write me off as a PC bastard. That's cool too. Seriously.

Cheers,
OMC

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