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Old March 24th, 2006, 02:20 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
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Wolfgang wrote:
"Ken Fortenberry" wrote:
If you don't know that squaw is an offensive racial slur
then what you know, no matter how much, is just flat wrong.


See, this is what comes of the belief that holding a foreign compact dic in
one's hand is the same thing as having a grasp of one's native tongue.


Like I told Choc, you can argue etymology but you cannot
argue the fact that it's an offensive racial slur.

It seems to me that the use of offensive racial slurs
should be discouraged rather than encouraged.

--
Ken Fortenberry