The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #115014 Message #2462486
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
10-Oct-08 - 04:58 PM
Thread Name: Not bad for an Irish woman (Enya)
Subject: RE: Not bad for an Irish woman
Which dictionary do you use, Jim. I have three definitions here directly from:
1.Dictionary.reference.com - stereotyping - a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes.
2.Cambridge dictionary online - stereotype - a fixed idea that people have about what someone or something is like, especially an idea that is wrong:
3. Meriam-Webster - stereotype - to repeat without variation : make hackneyed b: to develop a mental stereotype about
So, all this fuss is because you could not be bothered looking up the actual meaning of the word and have relied on your own definition? Blimey. I hope you don't do anything important for a living!
"Oh, hang on, my definition of flying a plane is to drive it at 100mph into the side of the airport. Or maybe, my dictionary says you save someones life by sticking a red hot poker up their bum?"
Don't take offense, Jim. Just having a 'bit of fun' :-P
MP, Well said.
The person who is most able to comment if it was insulting or not is the person who was there
They have already said it was done maliciously. I have no reason at all to doubt their integrity.
Jim, on the other hand, I have not met and can only go off his comments and reasoning here. To date the jury is still out.
Cheers
Dave