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Lexifrey: Did you know that Dean Cain is a quarter Japanese?
afruit named joy: Yes.
Lexifrey: Oh, I'm sorry, 'Jap'. Apparently that's perfectly okay, if you don't mean anything by it.
afruit named joy: Oh, all right.
Lexifrey: Also, my opinions derive from a negative view of the world, Vanessa, so they're not valid.
afruit named joy: Man. I saw so many Chinks while I was in China.
Lexifrey: O_O
afruit named joy: It's so Chink-ful.
Lexifrey: um. hr?
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'
-Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
afruit named joy: Yes.
Lexifrey: Oh, I'm sorry, 'Jap'. Apparently that's perfectly okay, if you don't mean anything by it.
afruit named joy: Oh, all right.
Lexifrey: Also, my opinions derive from a negative view of the world, Vanessa, so they're not valid.
afruit named joy: Man. I saw so many Chinks while I was in China.
Lexifrey: O_O
afruit named joy: It's so Chink-ful.
Lexifrey: um. hr?
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.'
-Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll