Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

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Dan Harkins wrote:
>   Please. A ghetto is a homogeneous region for some sort of homogeneity.
> That could be ethnic but "ghetto" is not necessarily some slur against
> poor people or people of some ethnic background. In this case the ghetto
> is going to be golfers, most likely affluent ones, in their plus-fours
> and some plaid nightmare of an outfit.
> 
>   We've already lost the word "niggardly" and the phrase "chocolate
> soldier", neither of which have ethnic or racial connotation, to
> political correctness. 

If you happen to be norwegian and disinclined to pay the frost giants 
for their efforts on your construction project, they may apply it as a 
label. It does have an ethnic connotation, just not the one that's 
generally supposed... :/

> Let's not toss out "ghetto" too.
> 
>   Dan.
> 
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