If you don't know the difference between offensive and non offensive slang words, you could always look them up in a dictionary... ****** - A highly pejorative term for a black person, derived from word Negro. Paki - (United Kingdom) used as a racial epithet directed towards South Asians (and sometimes Middle Eastern people), it is usually considered offensive when used by a non-Asian in the UK Chink (also chinki, chinky, chinkie) is an English ethnic slur usually referring to a person of Chinese ethnicity. Yank (Yankee) A term for Northerners used by Southerners within the United States or by non-Americans for Americans.
Yes, just ask Paul Elliott! Don't want to rake over this whole debate again as wit will get the thread locked as various dimbos wade in. My point, in case you didn't realise it, was that the 'offensive' epithet seems to be constantly being redefined or reapplied. So why shouldn't Americans be referred to correctly?
Not really the same, I know the Americans have a different outlook on life to the rest of the World and I know they're based in the Bronx, so I don't anticipate the baseball team changing its name to the "New York ******s" any time soon.
And, strangely, a lot of Americans from the Southern States (the old Confederacy) find the term "Yankee" as applied to them really offensive. Silly bastards.
Yankee is highly offensive but not in the way OLM says. Yankee is offensive to a southerner if he is called that. It is not considered an insult unless the person it is directed to is a southerner. This really only holds true in rural areas in the south. So if you call a person a yankee in the north it doesnt mean all that much really. Where I grew up if you had called people that you would have gotten the **** kicked out of you.
Yes it is from the civil war but the insult really is more about what happened at the end of the war and after as opposed to the war in general. If you are interested there are a couple links below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman's_March_to_the_Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger
The other day my flatmate poured water on me when I fell asleep on the sofa. I naturally woke up and called him a ****ing ****. We Laughed. If I went and knocked on my elderly neighbour's front door and said the same thing to her she would be mortally offended I'm sure. The use of any combination of words can be offensive, or not. It depends who you are talking to. As you don't know who you are talking to on the Internet you should choose your word carefully and generally just apply common sense.
Exactly. Much like the use of the word "****" is the most offensive word you can say here to a woman or in the presence of a woman. It is a sure way to get dumped or never have sex again.
It's Hull City Association Football Club and it should stay as HCAFC, regardless what anyone else says... including that stupid ****ing twat who posts here and insists on referring to "HCFC" when talking about this club.
It really isnt an offensive remark because you are English. It isnt the word itself that is offensive it is the meaning behind it. As you are not a southern american you can not understand the meaning behind it as such you can not be using it in the way that someone in one of the rural southern states would. If that makes sense. You all have called me a yank lots of times. I have never taken offense to it.
