You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Jan 10th 2006, 9:22 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by dbd33
I heard an American, from Port Arthur TX, say exactly that over the holidays. As we were in a Mexican restaurant this remark caused a horrified hush to fall over the table. I tactfully moved the conversation along by commenting that we Brits similarly lump everyone from the Indian subcontinent together.
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Jan 10th 2006, 9:47 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by dbd33
I heard an American, from Port Arthur TX, say exactly that over the holidays. As we were in a Mexican restaurant this remark caused a horrified hush to fall over the table. I tactfully moved the conversation along by commenting that we Brits similarly lump everyone from the Indian subcontinent together.
yeah we do...lol but I speak the truff and they do all look the same. When I've been in China and Japan I find it hard to tell who's from where..good job I note the airport I land at...lol
Jan 10th 2006, 10:02 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by TruBrit
yeah we do...lol but I speak the truff and they do all look the same. When I've been in China and Japan I find it hard to tell who's from where..good job I note the airport I land at...lol
Jan 10th 2006, 10:06 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by dbd33
Jan 10th 2006, 10:07 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by TruBrit
oh honestly, whatever next..lol I'll take the test this evening...tks
It's very difficult, even if you're Asian.
Jan 10th 2006, 10:30 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by batty-x-ray
But if a Briton considers "Brit" to be offensive then isnt it offensive by definition.
"Fag" is an offensive term for a homosexual in Canada, in England it refers to a cigarette - as you know. Should everyone in England stop using the term "fag" because some Canadian homosexual living there could possibly be offended? See what I mean?
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Jan 10th 2006, 10:33 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by dbd33
It's very difficult, even if you're Asian.
Jan 10th 2006, 10:34 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by dbd33
It's very difficult, even if you're Asian.
Jan 10th 2006, 10:43 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy
The point is NOT wether canadians per se find these words offensive BUT if the 'racial' groups to which they are being applied finds them offensive.
You point is off the mark and should be amend to: "if the Canadian 'racial' groups to which the term is applied finds them offensive, then the word should not be used".
We (Canadians) can't change our use of words everytime a foreigner takes a term the wrong way. It is incumbent upon the newcomer to understand the use (and meaning) of terms in Canadian English.
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Jan 10th 2006, 10:47 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by oceanMDX
Then you should stop using the word "fag" in England.
You point is off the mark and should be amend to: "if the Canadian 'racial' groups to which the term is applied finds them offensive, then the word should not be used".
We (Canadians) can't change our use of words everytime a foreigner takes a term the wrong way. It is incumbent upon the newcomer to understand the use (and meaning) of terms in Canadian English.
You point is off the mark and should be amend to: "if the Canadian 'racial' groups to which the term is applied finds them offensive, then the word should not be used".
We (Canadians) can't change our use of words everytime a foreigner takes a term the wrong way. It is incumbent upon the newcomer to understand the use (and meaning) of terms in Canadian English.
Sorry old bean but gays are not a racial group!!!!
Jan 10th 2006, 10:48 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by annie3-4
I guess this means I wont be able to ask people if they want to nip out for a fag anymore....
Jan 10th 2006, 10:58 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by dbd33
"Newfie" is one.
No, Newfie is not offensive in Canada - period! It is not like the use of the "N-word" in the Caribbean. The Blacks use it among themselves, but a stranger probably shouldn't.
Jan 10th 2006, 11:02 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by TruBrit
lol I don't care if people call me a Brit, it's one of the nicer names I've been called for sure esp coming from Liverpool However I was surprised to hear that it's apparently rude to call people from Mexico > Mexicans..they are referred to as Hispanics...anyone know the reason for that 
However I was surprised to hear that it's apparently rude to call people from Mexico > Mexicans..they are referred to as Hispanics...anyone know the reason for that
Jan 10th 2006, 11:58 pm
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by oceanMDX
No, Newfie is not offensive in Canada - period!
"You know what that is, eh ?"
"That's a ****ing Newfie"
"There's a ****ing Newfie in here"
I went over the partition. Eventually a bouncer pounded my head into the sidewalk. I have scars.
In seven years of living with a woman from Newfoundland I heard the term used perjoratively countless times.
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Jan 11th 2006, 12:05 am
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Re: You know you're becoming canadian when you...!
Originally Posted by Butch Cassidy
I am ashamed I only got 6
*hangs head in shame and stands in corner*