[Heeplist] Criticism and bourish behaviour

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On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Bob Winward <uriahheep at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
>
>
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