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Help[Opinions] Um, is that supposed to be an insult? (nt)
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No, it's not.
It's a polite way to put that the name seems to me to be associated with a lower-class type of person without using the word trashy.
It's a polite way to put that the name seems to me to be associated with a lower-class type of person without using the word trashy.
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I disagree, Haven
"Working class" and "low class" or "trashy" are VERY different things. "Working class" merely refers to a sector of society that has a particular income level and particular life philosophy. It's *not* a negative term.
If you want to say trashy, say trashy - don't borrow other terms which don't deserve that kind of usage.
~Chrisell~
Proudly Australian
www.archaeochrisell.blogspot.com
"Working class" and "low class" or "trashy" are VERY different things. "Working class" merely refers to a sector of society that has a particular income level and particular life philosophy. It's *not* a negative term.
If you want to say trashy, say trashy - don't borrow other terms which don't deserve that kind of usage.
Proudly Australian www.archaeochrisell.blogspot.com
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If you noticied
About three posts down - I corrected myself and apologized for it already. It was a bad choice of words.
About three posts down - I corrected myself and apologized for it already. It was a bad choice of words.
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If *you* noticed . . .
I replied only minutes after you did, and was in fact typing the reply while you posted, so I couldn't have known at the time that you were replying.
~Chrisell~
Proudly Australian
www.archaeochrisell.blogspot.com
I replied only minutes after you did, and was in fact typing the reply while you posted, so I couldn't have known at the time that you were replying.
Proudly Australian www.archaeochrisell.blogspot.com
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Ditto m
Especially because you're dancing around the issue. You can phrase it however way you like, but your opinion is clear. The problem isn't the words you use, it's the intention behind them, and in this case, it's very obvious you think little of the name Jasmine or the people who use it. I'm not saying I've never called a name trashy, but just say it (perhaps with an acknowledgment that you're not trying to offend anyone), and move on. By going to such pains to act like you're not prejudiced, it just highlights the fact that you are even moreso.
Magnanimous Despair alone could show me so divine a thing, where feeble hope could ne'er have flown, but vainly flapped its tinsel wing.
Especially because you're dancing around the issue. You can phrase it however way you like, but your opinion is clear. The problem isn't the words you use, it's the intention behind them, and in this case, it's very obvious you think little of the name Jasmine or the people who use it. I'm not saying I've never called a name trashy, but just say it (perhaps with an acknowledgment that you're not trying to offend anyone), and move on. By going to such pains to act like you're not prejudiced, it just highlights the fact that you are even moreso.
Magnanimous Despair alone could show me so divine a thing, where feeble hope could ne'er have flown, but vainly flapped its tinsel wing.
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You're nice.
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Well, "working class" and "classless" mean very different things to me.
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You're right.`
I should have been a lot clearer - especially since I'm not from a high-class family.
I should have been a lot clearer - especially since I'm not from a high-class family.
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me too
"a boy's best friend is his mother" - Norman Bates in Psycho
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