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A humble apology.
G, day folks, it has brought to my attention that a variation of a word common in the sixties was in fact not in fact as harmless as I believed. I have taken the education on board in the manner intended, kindly.
I am sorry for the offense given, I did not intend to do so. Should the members wish me to leave I shall accept the decision. Thank you for the education and the enjoyment of seeing all the wonderful creations on the forum. I am a richer and better person for ALL of these threads and the people who make them. My variation of the Spock salutation, Live long and be happy. Mike |
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Leave? I should think not! You're a valued contributing member of the forum who made an honest mistake. No harm was intended. Lesson learned. Move on. Back to building paper models.
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We are a rather forgiving group. I went back through your recent posts and haven't come across the offensive phrase, yet. I was curious Continue on, sir
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It wasn't offensive
it could be confusing for those members who speak the Dutch language.
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There those who still use the term. In some Middle Eastern countries, they might be offended. I met someone once who was deployed to Kuwait and had been instructed not call anyone dude or dood because it would be calling them a worm. So let's all continue to be happy paper slicing dudes.
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For our Dutch members, my forum name is 'Vermin_King', like 'king of rats', not 'verminking', like 'disfigured'.
We do have things crop up occasionally from language issues, but we deal with them. Knowing we are a global community, issues will arise from time to time
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Can't say I read something offensive in your posts.
Anyway, we're not all English-speaking and sometimes words have meanings only certain people know or that have completely different meanings in other languages. Like "pet" in Dutch means something else in English and gets rather embarrassing in French. so do stay on, Mike. |
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LOL reminds me of my late Dad.
Who liked to use the phrase "blow me" ...a lot. If you're English, you should understand it completely. Comes from the old nautical saying "blow me down". Means being astounded or surprised by something. "Well blow me down..." But even at 70, my Father used the phrase all the time... and this is in Canada and the US, where the phrase isn't nearly as common. "blow me, if I couldn't find a parking space!"... "blow me, isn't that nice!" "blow me, I need to find a bathroom." and you could spot the heads turning every where he went. LOL ... I'd suggest moving this thread to the Off-Topic area. How the heck did you end up in the Aviation Model build section?! lol
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Language is amazing, isn't it?
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I have made my own mistakes in language translations. In RVN, in the '60s, I had to coordinate with my Vietnamese counterparts and would practice my Vietnamese on the interpreter that worked for me. One morning I was headed for such a meeting and I gave her my verbal opening statement. She blushed, almost choked laughing, and said "You really don't want to know what you just said, and you do NOT want to repeat it in the meeting. Here is what I think you intended." I was lucky to have a guardian. Who knows; I might have started WWIII!
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