23578 Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 as in General Franks yesterday with Bush: "John Kerry denigrates troops by criticizing Bush" or Bush last week: "Kerry continues to denigrate the efforts of our troops" you can make the jump here folks. do we really beleive these fools have IQ's large enough to call upon big words such as this, or is something deeper at work. yeah that's right i called them racist. seriously who here beleives the word is racist, or is it just another word. it leaves a bad taste in my mouth, but i could be biased :( . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bodice_ripper Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 den·i·grate ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dn-grt) tr.v. den·i·grat·ed, den·i·grat·ing, den·i·grates To attack the character or reputation of; speak ill of; defame. To disparage; belittle: The critics have denigrated our efforts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Latin dnigrre, dnigrt-, to blacken, defame : d-, de- + niger, nigr-, black; see nekw-t- in Indo-European Roots.] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- deni·gration n. deni·grator n. Now, I assume your refering to "black" being part of the word. I don't know if this word developed from a racial slur, but I doubt it.... edit, found this - Etymology: 16c: from Latin denigrare, denigratum to blacken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 blacken also means 'tarnish'. this is hardly a racist term. am i being 'racist' when i call bush a fucking monkey? am i being racist when i laugh at hesh for refering to his asian girlfriend as 'munkee'? am i being racist when i put on a sheet and lynch 'coons'? just checking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobo knife Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 other racist term niggard..."Damn you's got a niggard job" or "I ain't doin' that, that there's a niggard job" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 um, no, if thats how it's used, that's double ignorant. once for the malapropism, and twice for being racist. niggard/niggardly means cheap or stingy. it's an old english word, well predating any use of 'nigger'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobo knife Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 niggardly 1. unwilling to give spend or share. 2. scanty, meager. hence this word could be used to descirbe a meager job which pays poorly or a job that only servants would perform....sorry I didn't use the adjective niggardly and misused niggard...it's not a word i frequently use...but thanks for the linguistics lesson...and since when are you the judge on what words can be considered racist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted October 29, 2004 Share Posted October 29, 2004 Originally posted by hobo knife@Oct 29 2004, 03:18 PM and since when are you the judge on what words can be considered racist? Quoted post Since he hit 18K posts. Bitch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobo knife Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Quoted post Since he hit 18K posts. Bitch. Quoted post aah. of course. it's the 12 oz mafia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CIPHER_one Posted October 30, 2004 Share Posted October 30, 2004 Mams, hold 'em down. I got the shovel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
23578 Posted October 31, 2004 Author Share Posted October 31, 2004 yo, guys, it ain't the word that bothers me, it's the fact that these guys use this word. that some 740 sat verbal word, not a word georgie boy, a c/legacy student can comprehend. his use of it, and tommy franks the same week, is racist, not the word itself, discuss. . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavyLox Posted October 31, 2004 Share Posted October 31, 2004 Yet when Kerry's bombshell findings were released in 1989, they were greeted by the mainstream press with disdain and disinterest. The New York Times, which had long denigrated the Contra-drug allegations, buried the story of Kerry's report on its inside pages, as did the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times. fromthe kerry contra connection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne hits Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 Originally posted by hobo knife@Oct 29 2004, 08:18 PM ..it's not a word i frequently use... Quoted post ^ you just throw it in a conversation once in a blue moon, so its not played out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 2, 2004 Share Posted November 2, 2004 one word that gets me..... DECIMATE The romans would line up their captured enemies and behead 1 in every 10 people (hence 'deci' for the metric heads) I see this term used all the time to describe everything from crops being destroyed to sports analogies. Please get it right..... 1 in 10 !!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeking Posted November 3, 2004 Share Posted November 3, 2004 Originally posted by hobo knife@Oct 29 2004, 03:18 PM niggardly 1. unwilling to give spend or share. 2. scanty, meager. hence this word could be used to descirbe a meager job which pays poorly or a job that only servants would perform....sorry I didn't use the adjective niggardly and misused niggard...it's not a word i frequently use...but thanks for the linguistics lesson...and since when are you the judge on what words can be considered racist? Quoted post if someone said 'thats a niggard job', the word 'niggard' would be in reference to 'nigger', not to niggardly. no one that actually understands the meaning of the word 'niggardly' would ever use it in that context (if at all), since the likelyhood of being misunderstood is so great (see the us senator who used it for an example). and i am not the judge of what is and is not racist, i am the messenger passing along the fact, as established by websters dictionary, that niggardly does not stem from or have anything to do with the word 'nigger' or any other racist phrase. seeks/dont blame me homie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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