On Tuesday, 22 January 2013 22:16:10 UTC, Jon Kiparsky wrote: > > > What's the insult? > > Here we go: "
> > Hopefully you understand that the word "hillbilly" can be offensive to > people? > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/i3AtTZW2zVoJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
