Jane.
Your dislike of the World of Glorantha group is well known.
Your dislike is quite verbose and unpleasant.
You have been warned about it on this list repatedly.
You have ignored these warnings.
I am sick of it.
Goodbye.
Jeff
- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, Jane Williams
<janewilliams20_at_...> wrote:
>
> > Perhaps it isn't if you speak American? They may have their own
> > line of ethnic slurs that people in the UK and the former
colonies don't
> > know about?
>
> And a few seconds of asking would have told them that that was
offensive. Were they talking to any Brits at the time? Oh, yes, the
guy whose existing and perfectly adequate list they were
hijacking.... plus, potentially, anyone on that or any other list.
How long does it take to say "hey, what do people think of this
name"? 30 sec? A few minutes to read the answers?
>
> > I expect it was an attempt to be more poetical, rather than to be
> > deliberately upsetting.
>
> If so, it was an incredibly stupid one. But since so much else
about setting that list up was apparently intended to offend, with
no other reason for it happening at all, why would the name be any
different?
>
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