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I mean, if you call me an African-American and I complain that I am zero per cent African and that term is insulting to me, then the logical thing to ask is, "So, what do you want me to call you, then?" Off-topic, but: are you even American? :lol: (Also, if you trace back far enough, we're all "Afr...

This begins the fourth part of the redacted archive of Kenji Setou. In which Kenji wonders about consequences for action and inaction. He became increasingly busy from this point in his life, and his account therefore contained larger gaps. Yet there is still much of interest in the scraps that his...

In a speaking, writing world, where the majority do speak and write, to be silent or incapable of speech, or to be illiterate or dyslexic, are often seen as things to be ashamed of. We come from very different places, I guess. One of my childhood friends is dyslexic, and I've never thought of it as...

Oh, that Hanako is lovely; she is all wide-eyed innocent joy!

(Very minor quibble... you do indeed have problems with skirts. )

Hmm, Mirage_GSM, I think I wasn't particularly clear myself. Let me first apologise for that. 1. 'Nigger' has been an offensive term in most arenas since last century. As a word, it doesn't describe a deficiency, but has negative connotations historically. 2. 'Mute' has been a basic term used to des...

Stupid and dickhead are both negative traits, so these examples do not fit this discussion. Also, like I said before, what you refer to here as "your group" is the vast majority of the English speaking population. I don't think anyone here would sit down with his three best buddies and decide that ...

azumeow wrote:

brythain wrote:

azumeow wrote:That''s okay, I wasn't planning on feeling happy tonight anyway.

Quick question: of all the main girls in KS, which one do you think is MOST like Akiko Nakai in terms of temperament?

I'd have to say Shizune.

I thought so too. And that is where one part of Akiko's tragedy lies.

Because I've never met X. If I met mysterious, elusive X and discovered their dislike for the term "mute", I wouldn't call X by that term. It's basically my contention that X doesn't exist realistically. Of course there's bound to be someone who's offended by the term "mute", but I'd still say they...

azumeow wrote:That''s okay, I wasn't planning on feeling happy tonight anyway.

Quick question: of all the main girls in KS, which one do you think is MOST like Akiko Nakai in terms of temperament?

I would just say that whether a majority feels it is offensive, non-offensive, or whatever, I would not make claims of a term being inherently offensive etc. I would only say that if X prefers not be called Y, no matter how accurate Y is, then if we can avoid it, don't call X Y. But you can do it to...

You have every freedom to take offense to something and see it as an insult if you want, but that doesn't change the fact that it isn't actually an insult and you're basically warping reality to fit what you want to see instead of seeing what's actually there. It just seems to me like people go out...

Interesting question: what do you call someone with substantial lower-limb impairment that precludes a normal range of locomotion? Such people used to be known as 'cripples' (from c. 10th century) and 'lame' (even earlier). These terms began to be used primarily as pejoratives from the 1960s and 197...

"Mute" and "soundless" are close enough in meaning to be understood as interchangeable whereas many of those words are not close enough in meaning for that. Your argument here is, pardon my paraphrase, "WELL, BECAUSE OTHER WORDS AND STUFF!" Yeah, okay, great. But "mute" is among the word choices av...

If it is doppelganger, I think if I recall correctly, the existence of such is mostly western. Japanese supernatural and paranormal materials often links to a 'soul' of the once-living or the gods/spirits that inhabit certain areas (which are usually shinto/buddhist related). Just for 'kicks', Lill...

I could call them "mute" because the meaning is exactly the same and, again, arbitrary offense at a word with factually zero offensive intent or meaning behind it is stupid. :mrgreen: What you've said above is, paraphrased, "Well, if they mean the same thing, why don't you just say 'soundless'?!".....