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Until the late 1980s, it was used more often. The fact that gyp which refers to bilking, flimflamming, or bamboozlingis short for gypsy should tell you all you need to know about its offensiveness. This is the same thing as that guy protesting against the Walking Dead tshirt that had Eenie Meenie Miney Mo on it, because that rhyme had a racist origin. The rules written there are a lot more detailed than we could ever post here in the sidebar. America has an ignoble history of taking ethnic, religious, or racial identifiers and repurposing them as negative actions and attributes. The original Catch a nigger by the toe, according to Bickerton, points to the rhyme’s roots in an African American community.
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The Sa Tomenese phrase ine mina mana mu, meaning my sister’s children, bears a very close phonological resemblance to Eeny, meeny, miny, mo. Rules: In order to save some space, the rules are now linked to our wiki page. It has been utilized before in songs including 'Eeny Meeny Miney Mo,' a popular song written in 1935 by Johnny Mercer and Matty Malneck and the similarly titled 'Eeny Meeny Miny Moe,' which was an European hit for Dutch girl group Luv' in 1979. In 1982, similarly, Derek Bickerton postulated that the rhyme derives from Sa Tomenese, a Creole language spoken by African slaves. Seen a horribly oppressed transethnic otherkin blog their plight? Wept at how terrible it is for the suffering of multiple systems to go unheard every day? Been unable to even live with the thought of the identities of someone's headmates being cisdenied?Ĭonfused? Here's a moderately helpful dictionary of terms.īefore posting please check the known Satire/Troll Wiki The titty collection, from TiA: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 /// pokemon_fetish wins TiA