Quotes and Jokes (6 Viewers)

[mikewint]

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[SaparotRob]

And BTY the word "eskimo" is highly offensive here in Canada. We use "Inuit". The parody behind is that "eskimo" is translated (maybe)'eaters of raw meat' in Algonquian, which is a native language. So some natives call other natives something and we are the bad guys when using the same word, because we are...eh, you know what....Go figure!

Puts a whole 'nother spin on the ice cream confection called "Eskimo Bar".

 

[SaparotRob]

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They have a show?

 

[mikewint]

And BTY the word "eskimo" is highly offensive here in Canada. We use "Inuit".

Cory, Twas a political cartoon so not my word though any "word" is a noise you make with your mouth. It does not change the actual object in any way. Never understood why "Number Two" or "Feces" is OK but the perfectly good 4-letter Saxon word is "offensive".
According to the Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, linguists believe the word Eskimo actually came from the French word esquimaux, meaning one who nets snowshoes. Netting snowshoes is the highly-precise way that Arctic peoples built winter footwear by tightly weaving, or netting, sinew from caribou or other animals across a wooden frame.
Of course, as with so many words sullied by the crimes of colonialism, not everyone agrees on what to do with Eskimo. Many Native Alaskans still refer to themselves as Eskimos, in part because the word Inuit isn't part of the Yupik languages of Alaska and Siberia.
Etymology, lexicology, linguistics, and semantics are hardly germane to "Quotes and Jokes"

 

[Greg Boeser]

Etymology, lexicology, linguistics, and semantics are hardly germane to "Quotes and Jokes"

Funny accents, though, are still OK.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]