[ SECRET POST #3227 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3227 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica, Major Crimes]


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03.
[Deadly Premonition]


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[The Walking Dead, Glenn Rhee]


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[Bill Skarsgård]


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08. http://i.imgur.com/LAq54d4.jpg
[link for random penis]









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Comments

[gobbledigook]

Huh! Is it because it sounds like it should be a slur, or because you dislike what I post so you want to insult people/stuff by associating them with the username? Is this anon hate???? I'm confused(but amused).

[(Anonymous)]

"Gook" is a not-so-nice word for Asian people.

[skeletal_history]

The word "gobbledygook" has nothing to do with attitudes toward Asian people --

"According to Michael Quinion on his World Wide Words website gobbledygook was first coined on 21 May 1944 by Maury Maverick, a congressman from Texas. His comments, recorded in the New York Times Magazine, were made when Maverick was the Democratic chairman of the US Congress Smaller War Plants Committee. He was being critical of the obscure language used by other committee members. The allusion was to a turkey, "always gobbledy gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity."[15] It is sometimes abbreviated slightly to gobbledygoo.[16]"
--https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobbledygook

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I know, I just figured that's what anon was talking about, because that's the only part of the username I could see reminding them of a slur.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

"Gook" is a slur, that might be what they're referring to.

gook
noun, Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive.

1. a contemptuous term used to refer to a native of Southeast Asia or the South Pacific, especially a member of an enemy military force.

2. a contemptuous term used to refer to any dark-skinned foreigner, especially a non-European or non-American.

3. anyone who is offensive to others because of stupidity, coarseness, etc.

Origin
1915-20; of uncertain orig; compare earlier googoo, gugu, as contemptuous term for a Filipino, and perhaps comparable relationship of kook to cuckoo

Usage note
The earliest recorded uses of this term were by U.S. Marines when referring to Haitians and Filipinos. It continued to be common slang in the American military, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

[skeletal_history]

Again, "gobbledygook" is unrelated to the ethnic slur. See above.

[gobbledigook]

Yeah, I've seen the term gobbledygook before being used for a type of prose, and at the time I was listening to the Sigus Rós song.

Huh. I wonder If I can change it somehow.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, there's no need. Your username isn't actually the slur.

[tabaqui]

I'm with Anon - your username is a word utterly unassociated with the slur 'gook'. It's like the term 'calling a spade a spade' has *nothing* to do with black people. Don't sweat it.

Uh, okay?

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

I was just pointing out what issue the anon who read it as a slur might have. Gobbledygook isn't a common word and isn't commonly seen, so anon above may just automatically associate it because they've seen/heard the slur a lot more. Like if you used spic_n_span as a user name, someone would probably associate it with Spic, while the phrase has nothing to do with the slur. There's nothing wrong with either the person with the user name or the one who associates it with the slur. Anon above only pointed out the association, they didn't demand anything be done about it.