Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:43:09 -0800 From: William Carrel <william.a@carrel.org> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: jive (was RE: was this really necessary?) Message-ID: <F34A6BC9-495D-11D7-8C79-003065D5E9A4@carrel.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030225234336.01a452b8@threespace.com>
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On Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at 09:50 PM, Chip Morton wrote: > So I think we can pretty much kill the pseudo-ignorant "Oh it wasn't > poking fun at anybody specifically" attitude. Think of all the poor Swedish who are stereotyped by The Muppets Swedish Chef! And Google helps maintain this prejudice with their ethnically insensitive Swedish Chef translation (http://www.google.com/intl/xx-bork/). Why the whole world will think that every Swede is a clumsy guy who beats his dough with a rolling pin and says "Bork, bork, bork" a lot. In other words, the encheferizer owes it's existence to a desire of Norwegian middle-class pricks to make fun of Swedish working-class kids. Pretty soon as a result of this oppressive stereotype, people will start taking casual mailing lists far more seriously than they ought to. These mailing list posters will link Scandinavian racial strife, fascism, atomic weapons, and the worldwide proliferation of Chicken McNuggets to the encheferizer. Oh the horrors caused by one simple program. I'd best go back to my strange world where the people who speak jive are mainly white and the word pragmatism means something. Bork, bork, bork! -- William Carrel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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