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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:23:10 +0100, Catja Pafort   
    wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >>> Until recently, I thought nothing much of the word "paki",   
   >>> considering  it a slang shortening of "Pakistani".   
      
   >> I assume as a matter of course that such ethnic terms are   
   >> likely to have derogatory connotations unless I definitely   
   >> know otherwise, so this particular issue wouldn't arise.   
      
   > So how come you're making an exception for ethnic terms,   
   > but not for words meant to denigrate _other_ minorities?   
      
   I make no such distinction.  If you think otherwise, you   
   haven't understood what I've been saying.   
      
   Brian   
      
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