Comment Re:Power in Language (Score 1) 266
Well, I'm proud to be a Mick, or Paddy if you prefer. My British buddies don't generally mind Limey much anymore, though why they should is beyond me anyway (the reference is to the days when theirs were the only sailors without scurvey, as they carried limes on long voyages).
Boy oh boy, though, do people in the Southern US get irked when they find out the rest of the world calls them yanks too!
As in so many things, it ain't what you say it's the way that you say it!
"We're geeks, we're perspicacious, we can spell it and we know what it means!"? Nah, doesn't scan does it?
Boy oh boy, though, do people in the Southern US get irked when they find out the rest of the world calls them yanks too!
As in so many things, it ain't what you say it's the way that you say it!
"We're geeks, we're perspicacious, we can spell it and we know what it means!"? Nah, doesn't scan does it?
