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aurora_borealis_2

Nesima wrote:

nitty gritty is an extremely racist remark !

look up its origin and original meaning, you will be very surprised.

Oh for heaven's sake :rolleyes: ....incoming!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I use it with its current meaning. We're not living 100 years ago

mrcow

aurora_borealis wrote:

We're not living 100 years ago

Apparently I'm living in the '80s

aurora_borealis_2

mrcow wrote:

Apparently I'm living in the '80s

Got teenagers mrs mrcow? :rotfl:

mrcow

No, that's just what my boyfriend (constantly) says! Apparently I still expect everything to cost what it did back in 1989! :eek: (Well why not?)


My children aren't old enough to start slinging insults at me yet, but that day will surely come soon enough :rotfl:

Prudent

sra wrote:

Spellchecking is available:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=397755&postcount=20

But if I worried about spell checking, I'd never post

Understanding is the most important thing.
I'd much have a badly spelled and badly written post that I can understand over one with perfect spelling that I have to read three times to figure out what it's all about.

Thank you. I tend to edit two out of three posts because of typos.

MrSmartprice

Nesima wrote:

nitty gritty is an extremely racist remark !

look up its origin and original meaning, you will be very surprised.

Who gives a damn Language is a living, evolving thing. It is a phrase in everyday use, and not one person in a thousand would regard it as racist:rotfl:

I suppose we have another social services clerk who can't have black or white coffee. "I take it without milk, actually."

Or are you just the replacement Deemy?:D

skorpio40

Nesima wrote:

nitty gritty is an extremely racist remark !

look up its origin and original meaning, you will be very surprised.

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Ah come on, chill.

Think "extremely racist" is dubious at best.

"The origins of the Nitty-Gritty phrase do not seem to be as appalling as some imagined.

The origins of the phrase are almost impossible to track down, and it does seem to have its roots as a Black American English expression.
The first written occurrence of the phrase can be found around 1950, although there are claims that the term has been used in print as far back as the 1920's. Dr Jonathan Lighter, editor of the Historical Dictionary of American Slang, recorded its usage in 1956 as having the non-racially overtoned meaning of 'the heart of the matter', and, 'the core issues' as it is defined these days in most dictionaries.
Although the phrase may have been in use well before then, it is almost inconceivable that, had it been used as suggested with respect to slave ships, that there are no examples of such usage at all. If the term Nitty-Gritty, is offensive, there is absolutely no evidence which supports that view. It seems that its unacceptable racial overtones are a product of folklore rather than factual".

http://www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk/nitty.htm

Sorry folks had to post this as political correctness was about to go even madder.

Nesima

My understanding of the origin and meaning of the phrase 'nitty gritty' is that it was used to describe the 'rights'/action of white slave owners raping the daughters of slaves they owned.

Given its original usage and meaning I would suggest it is at best extremely insensitive to use such a term in our society today. even if some people use it to mean something different.

aurora_borealis_2

Nesima wrote:

My understanding of the origin and meaning of the phrase 'nitty gritty' is that it was used to describe the 'rights'/action of white slave owners raping the daughters of slaves they owned.

Given its original usage and meaning I would suggest it is at best extremely insensitive to use such a term in our society today. even if some people use it to mean something different.

Do you know the meaning of twaddle too?

chatta

This post has changed from bad spelling to racism in 24 hours how did it get so complicated