Ben, list,
and in India we (sometimes europeans, sometimes all "white" foreigners) are still called "feringhees", which means "franks", although the frank empire in europe is a long time ago now, king Charles or something.
26. Juli 2019 um 00:22 Uhr
"Ben Udell" <[email protected]>
"Ben Udell" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Finally seeing the word's spelling helps. I used to know a pale, blonde
woman who as a girl lived for some years in Hawaii and hung out with the
local indigenous, and she told me that they called whites what sounded
like "hollies" to me, and I just couldn't get the word right. It always
struck me that that the word sounded mellifluous as you say but somehow
she was able to include a note of contempt in it! - Best, Ben
On 7/25/2019 5:20 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> At one point, Frank was talking about ethnic slurs, which
> usually contain guttural sounds with Ks and Gs. But in Hawaiian,
> the ethnic slur for whites is the mellifluous word 'haole'.
>
> Then a polite young Japanese woman said, "But Professor Anshen,
> what about the full form?" Frank innocently asked, "Oh, what is
> the full form?" Answer: "Fookin haole."
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woman who as a girl lived for some years in Hawaii and hung out with the
local indigenous, and she told me that they called whites what sounded
like "hollies" to me, and I just couldn't get the word right. It always
struck me that that the word sounded mellifluous as you say but somehow
she was able to include a note of contempt in it! - Best, Ben
On 7/25/2019 5:20 PM, John F Sowa wrote:
> At one point, Frank was talking about ethnic slurs, which
> usually contain guttural sounds with Ks and Gs. But in Hawaiian,
> the ethnic slur for whites is the mellifluous word 'haole'.
>
> Then a polite young Japanese woman said, "But Professor Anshen,
> what about the full form?" Frank innocently asked, "Oh, what is
> the full form?" Answer: "Fookin haole."
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