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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: XBrit who wrote (172139)12/18/2008 9:38:28 AM
From: TommasoRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
I once made a perfectly innocent joke or comment about a watermelon. I meant the big fruit, green on the outside and red on the inside with lots of black or brown seeds. This was interpreted as a racist remark. And again, I was once talking about deer hunting and used the word "buck."

I guess if one talked about using a spade to plant watermelons one would be in really big trouble.

But the most dangerous word is an Anglo-Saxon or Scandinavian word dating from about two thousand years ago, when no one in northern Europe even knew of the existence of Africa, a word that means "stingy." Or "cheap."

I wonder if the online thesaurus includes that work.

I found it under "cheapskate."

thesaurus.reference.com

I knew a guy, a very articulate Rhodes scholar, who almost came to serious grief in a Paris bistro when he used that word. When he saw his mistake, he kept using it in other contexts to try to clarify the meaning. Then he left in a hurry.
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