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Re: New Brickbay promotion
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 14 Jun 2001 05:50:10 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Matthew Gerber writes:
> In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Rich Manzo writes:
> > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, William R. Ward writes:
> > > That's spelled "gyp" and it's a racist term (short for Gypsy), which
> > > you should probably refrain from using.
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> > Are you sure about this? I have heard this term many times and always
> > assumed it was gipped. For example, this is how I usually hear the term: "I
> > was gipped (gyped) at the used car lot." I guess I see your point but I
> > think that this was just one term that was acclimated into the American
> > vocabulary.
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> He is correct. From Dictionary.com:
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> gyp also gip (jp) Slang
> tr.v. gypped, also gipped gyp·ping, gip·ping gyps, gips
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> To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle.
> n.
> 1. A fraud or swindle.
> 2. One who defrauds; a swindler.
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> [Probably short for Gypsy.]
And even if it were not derived from "Gypsy", as long as there is any
possibility that people might be offended, it is probably safer not to use the
term. "Renege", which is actually derived from the Latin renegare, meaning to
deny, comes to mind here. A while back a politician was labeled a racist by
some for using the word in a speech. And while I am uncertain of the actual
derivation of the word "squaw", I have heard that it is offensive, so I do not
use that word in reference to my female American Indian minifigs.
Maggie C.
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| (...) I've seen indications that it may be a word derived from the trading port of Alexandria, where Egyptian traders' interactions with Europeans gave rise both to the "gypsy" and "gypping" concepts. This is supposedly because at the time Europeans (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) He is correct. From Dictionary.com: gyp also gip (jp) Slang tr.v. gypped, also gipped gyp·ping, gip·ping gyps, gips To deprive (another) of something by fraud; cheat or swindle. n. 1. A fraud or swindle. 2. One who defrauds; a swindler. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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