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A thread is started every minute that doesn't interest me, with many I even disagree just by reading the title. I don't go posting in them. They are not for me, they are not about me.
There has been a sea of posts in this thread about how the word is to be loathed, hated, is yucky etc. There have been several thinly-veiled insults to anyone using it. People defend their right(!) to comment on other people's vocabularies, and derail threads when the vocabulary is not to their liking! Please!
Zelda's behaviour has been impeccable. She never ever insulted anyone (and I read eveything carefully), she only pointed out to Kenny that what he said he would do (say to everyone how silly their word usage is when he thinks so) would be trolling. And it would. You don't like it, don't participate. Don't answer. Why go out of your way to, yes, insult people on their word usage?
I've never reported a post in my life, but I've come close many times in this thread. A thread about a word, for f*&$' sake! Several times I felt insulted by the comments, and I'm sure I would have felt even more insulted if I was actually french. Why people think it's okay to publicly say they hate everything french (or brazilian, or japanese, or whatever) is beyond me.
I could go on and say more. About 'all-american' forums. About how if this thread had taken an anti-american rather than anti-french turn all hell would have broken loose. I'm trying very hard to restrain myself.
We all have the same rights. Yours are not better than mine.
I will say liseuse as often as I want to. It started as silly fun for me, but it's almost a revolutionary flag for me now in the face of vocabulary bigotry.
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