On 10/10/2006, at 6:29 AM, Matt Grimaldi wrote:
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Subject: Re: We Will Not Be Afraid
At 12:20 PM Saturday 10/7/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 11:30 AM Saturday 10/7/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
pencimen wrote:
Charlie wrote:
Hmm. I think intent is important. Some words may have been
offensive
once, but 50 years is a long time in language. "Pom" used to be
offensive in Oz, but it's not now, unless it's accompanied by an
adjective (usually "whinging"...).
pffft! WTF is whinging?
] I asked someone in the UK who uses that word frequently (it is in his
] .sig file, for whatever that says about him) and his response was
] that as far as he knew there is no significant difference, and that
] it is interchangeable with "whining" . . .
]
]-- Ronn! :)
But it also seems to have a usage which can make it similar to
wheedling or even begging.
In the original context of "whinging pom", it definitely means
complaining or whining in Australia. It was applied to those poms who
migrated out here, and who were disappointed that things were different
from "home". A commonly accepted derivation of pom is from pommie, or
Prisoner Of Mother England, I guess going back to the old days when the
UK practised foreign rendition a couple of hundred years ago. ;->
Regards, Ray.
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