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Originally Posted by Gilda
It's stupid to get upset at this, sure, but we are talking about a word that isn't in common usage and sounds a lot like the epithet. Taking this into account when choosing one's diction for a formal occasion would have been a smart thing to do.
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I agree it wasn't a smart thing to use niggardly for exactly those reasons but he shouldn't have lost his job over it. If people want to be offended after both the meaning of the word and it's etymology has been explained to them then I say let them be. As for the person who lodged the complaint and the mayor, they should have looked into the matter further. I'm assuming that's what happened and the mayor didn't know the origins of the word as opposed to the other possibility which would lower my opinion of him even further.
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Last edited by aKula; 10-23-2006 at 03:51 AM..
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