On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:16:10 UTC, Jon Kiparsky wrote:
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> What's the insult?
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Here we go:
"

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> Hopefully you understand that the word "hillbilly" can be offensive to 
> people?
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Yes, that's intentional. "

By his own admission, the use of a term that he has acknowledged can be 
offensive, without withdrawing or clarifying, to label everybody from a 
country that uses more than one system of units of measurement. Which I 
suspect is pretty much the whole world. Way to go.

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