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Thread #110820 Message #2328600
Posted By: Wolfgang
29-Apr-08 - 10:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Lesviots against Lesbians
Subject: BS: Lesviots against Lesbians
Three Lesviots (1 male, 2 females) sue organized lesbians in Greece with the aim to interdict the use of the word "lesbians" for homosexual females. The use of this word for an aberration, they argue, makes Lesviots a target of ridicule when they tell where they come from.
I wonder whether they will, in case of success, sue (at the European Court of Human Rights?) people of other native tongues than Greek if these persist in using the word "lesbian" with its present meaning. Well, since Greece insists that a neighbouring country (FYRoM) may not choose the name for itself as the inhabitants wish, this idea may not be so far fetched as it seems at the first glance.
If they have success I see the municipal authority of Hamburg suing McDonald's for a billion dollar compensation for decades of ridicule when inhabitants of Hamburg had to say "I am a Hamburger".
Then the inhabitants of Vienna ("Ich bin ein Wiener") will follow suit...
Then I will sue all the English speakers for all the ridicule I had to suffer when introducing myself