[Heeplist] Criticism and bourish behaviour

[Bob Winward]

Hi Tapio, I would not take the Xenophobe as an insult, it was more about the
insecurity of the person using the term.  He had a persecution complex
(China-phobe), thinking everyone hated him because he was in China.  I think
people hated him because he was a hole!!  In America, by the way, we do not
use the word Arse.  And if you yelled it at someone in the US, they would
think it was a hole to bury a dead arsonist (person who intentionally sets
fires)


On 11/20/14 1:21 PM, "Tapio Minkkinen" <tapio at uriah-heep.fi> wrote:

> Thank you Martin for the info on correct spelling
> 
> This list is very educational I must say. I am learning new English
> words all the time. Bourish or boerish didn't give any results in
> Google Translator. With boorish I got:
> "rough and bad-mannered; coarse.
> "boorish behavior"
> synonyymit: coarse, uncouth, rude, ill-bred, ill-mannered,
> uncivilized, unrefined, rough, thuggish, loutish, oafish, lubberly,
> lumpen, vulgar, unsavory, gross, brutish, Neanderthal, cloddish
> 
> A while ago one person on the list who is living in China called me a
> xenophobe. I could have been offended if I had known at the time what
> the word meant. It was only later that I looked it up from a
> dictionary and found out this was meant as an insult towards me.
>