Annoying words and phrasesMarketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.
Thanks to simbosan for the idea
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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I wonder if it's similar to "negro".When I was growing up, "negro" was an accepted term for a black person. There was no malice intended by it, and it wasn't used in a derogatory fashion; it was simply common parlance at the time.
Of course now, in these oh-so-enlightened times in which we live, we realise that "negro" is no longer quite so palatable. It occurs to me to wonder if "eskimo" might be the same: we use it unthinkingly, accepting it as a perfectly inoffensive term for a group of people, without realising that the people in question might have an entirely different meaning for it.
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flake has nothing against your right leg, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 1:08,
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From what I heard...Eskimos and Inuits are two similar but different groups of people. It all depends on the area from where they come from, however I'm sure the all-knowing sphere that is QI was not wrong on this.
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