'gypped' -- a no no

Subject: 'gypped' -- a no no
From: "David L. Bergart" <bodafu -at- CCVAX -dot- SINICA -dot- EDU -dot- TW>
Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 08:50:37 +0800

>Am I the only non-attendee (heyyy, he whines, I *wanted* to go...) who feels
>gypped? Could the Harold-Bev correspondence make its way online at some
>point?

I suspect that the person who wrote this would not have even considered using
'...who feels jewed?'. The gypsies have a much smaller presence, so there is
little social pressure to avoid this useage.

Speaking for the silent

David
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