12794021, fair enough. an I definitely don't mean to say Posted by Jon, Wed Apr-29-15 03:28 PM
Etymology is never important. Shoot, I've bought books on the subject. I think overall the subject matters.
I just mean, when deciding whether or not a person (alive today who learned to speak before 2pac) meant something racial by thug, bringing up that it was long ago used for some people from India is a 100% red herring, since Obama etc clearly weren't talking about Hindu-ish cukt worshipers and probably don't even know of that version of the word.
>that word origins are not germane to the appropriateness of >contemporary usage in various contexts; 'It doesn't matter >what it used to mean, it means something else now' ain't gonna >cut it for a lot of words. > >At any rate, the etymology was simply a response to denny's >statement that he was unaware of any race-based connotations >of the word thug; I wouldn't have felt it worth posting here >otherwise. > >
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