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Title: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Jamos on June 17, 2011, 06:49:44 AM If someone called you an "aborigine", is it something good or bad ?
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: pmull on June 17, 2011, 07:56:32 AM Not Good.
http://www.google.com/search?q=aborigine&hl=en&rlz=1I7GGLL_en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=tE77TbqvHY64twf9y5TADg&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1074&bih=814 Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Old Tider on June 17, 2011, 08:22:51 AM Not bad in Australia where they use it for the original inhabitants.
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: ssmith general on June 17, 2011, 08:42:28 AM I thought it just meant "original people"
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: pmull on June 17, 2011, 08:48:21 AM ab·o·rig·i·ne (b-rj-n)
n. 1. a. A member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region; a native. b. often Aborigine A member of any of the indigenous peoples of Australia. See Usage Note at native. 2. aborigines The flora and fauna native to a geographic area. Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: ricky023 on June 17, 2011, 09:29:50 AM It doesn't sound to bad. I saw the guy killing them in Quigley Down Under. They also saved Quigley from being shot. I bet he likes them. lol, RTR!
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on June 17, 2011, 11:07:37 AM This forum is great. Where else would you learn about words like Aborigine, plus get to use Aborigine in a sentence. It's not an every day word that you hear.
8) Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: BAMAWV on June 17, 2011, 11:23:16 AM This forum is great. Where else would you learn about words like Aborigine, plus get to use Aborigine in a sentence. It's not an every day word that you hear. Antidisestablishmentarianism pisses me off! 8) Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: pmull on June 17, 2011, 11:55:27 AM Try walking into a biker bar and calling the biggest SOB in the place an aborigine. See if he likes it.
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on June 17, 2011, 12:11:05 PM This forum is great. Where else would you learn about words like Aborigine, plus get to use Aborigine in a sentence. It's not an every day word that you hear. Antidisestablishmentarianism pisses me off! 8) Me too! What does it mean? What does Antidisestablishmentarianism have to do with Quantitative Easing? Quantitative Easing explained (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIPSaqYhZYQ) 8) Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Old Tider on June 17, 2011, 05:38:59 PM This probably refers to the undercover agent in Alabama who recently called blacks "aborigines." Now that gets bad.
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: cbbama99 on June 17, 2011, 05:57:23 PM This probably refers to the undercover agent in Alabama who recently called blacks "aborigines." Now that gets bad. Agreed. Its all about context. Besides, that wouldn't be correct because African Americans are not aborigines in the U.S. anyway. Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: rueben on June 18, 2011, 11:07:14 AM This probably refers to the undercover agent in Alabama who recently called blacks "aborigines." Now that gets bad. Agreed. Its all about context. Besides, that wouldn't be correct because African Americans are not aborigines in the U.S. anyway. You are correct, on both accounts. Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Old Tider on June 18, 2011, 02:09:33 PM It just seems an unpleasant word. You wouldn't want to call a Native American an Aborigine American.
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: rueben on June 18, 2011, 03:18:30 PM I guess I'm just an ALA-rigine. :D
Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Old Tider on June 18, 2011, 05:27:41 PM Here's the problem about "aborigines" in Eutaw:
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9NTKMG00.htm Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: Jamos on June 18, 2011, 08:38:42 PM This is the statement that Sen. Scott Beason made on one of the tapes being used in the bingo trial that aroused my curosity and I was just curious as to what all of your opinions were of this word being used as a description of Black Americans.
"They're aborigines, but they're not Indians," Title: Re: Aborigine... Good or bad word ? Post by: rueben on June 19, 2011, 04:39:17 PM Not appropriate. Disrespectful to Aborigines, and blacks!!
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