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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6555 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 7 22 January 2011 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
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Rush is an example of ignorant
language hating talk show hosts. Care to comment, or provide other examples? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5654 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 2 of 7 22 January 2011 at 3:06am | IP Logged |
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Just because someone doesn't like languages, it's okay to hate someone because of that? Wow. Just. Wow.
And I only had to read the first sentence of the article to know that a liberal wrote it. And I didn't bother reading the rest of it, because I hate reading liberally biased articles. I already read the Wall Street Journal (business major here) and that's enough liberal crap for me to digest. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5350 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 3 of 7 22 January 2011 at 3:12am | IP Logged |
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There wasn't any "hating" that I could see in the clip you linked to. Here it is not uncommon to make fun of how English sounds, yet I've never seen anyone become offended by it. Regarding how my own language and culture are portrayed in the U.S., I've seen far worse ignorance coming from Hollywood and the TV industry than this host person's silly mocking of Chinese.
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| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5231 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 4 of 7 22 January 2011 at 3:54am | IP Logged |
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I wasn't really interested in seeing how much Limbaugh 'hates' the Chinese so I didn't finish it, but the interesting part of this kind of things is how offended OTHER PEOPLE get... instead of the ones being mocked!
I remember a radio program I heard once, and there was this guy rambling against a chocolate-covered peanut make because the product was advertised using these black round characters in tribal clothes--so it could offend black people and so on... the show host invited the next two guests -who happened to be black people recently arrived from Africa- in to see what they thought, and to the other guy's surprise they were not only not offended at all, but they found the 'offending characters' cute and funny. If the mocked don't even take notice, I don't see why others should care the very least. Hell, if a guy mocks whomever in a really disrespectful way and offends them, he'll be only making a fool of himself AND he'll get some kind of response from the >offendees<. Another diplomatic incident that failed to happen :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5528 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 5 of 7 22 January 2011 at 5:17am | IP Logged |
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This is a political topic disguised as a language topic, except without the disguise part
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5572 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 6 of 7 22 January 2011 at 5:55am | IP Logged |
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Rush Limbaugh is the sort of fellow who just says outrageous things when the media spotlight drifts away from him. He is making a show, and he knows his fan base consists almost entirely of extremists among whom racism is popular. The only smart thing to do, from a marketing standpoint, is to pander to that bigotry to keep your viewers engaged and to keep the media's attention on you. One has to wonder how much Limbaugh actually believes in what he says. And why his opponents are so intent on giving him all the attention he craves. Edited by Levi on 22 January 2011 at 5:57am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6384 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 7 22 January 2011 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
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This topic isn't really language related. I'm closing the thread.
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