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To: LindyBill who wrote (180651)9/27/2006 2:50:05 AM
From: KLP  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793896
 
How in the heck is anyone supposed to know this? The schools don't teach it, do they? Maybe the NYT, Salon, the WaPo and AP can each provide 3 schools in the entire country where this word is talked about in their printed curriculum. Rrrriiiiighhhhht!

We were informed in what seemed like a 14-part series in the Washington Post that "macaca" is considered a slur in French in certain parts of Africa