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Old 11-15-2010, 02:21 AM   #13
sexobon
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linguistics irony

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Originally Posted by wolf View Post
... What is the proper pejorative for persons of Greek Ethnicity? ...
One could call such a person ...

Gringo
........a foreigner; especially used disparagingly against North Americans and North Europeans in Latin America (from the Spanish word "griego", meaning Greek. The use of the term Greek for something foreign or unintelligible is also seen in the similar expression "It's Greek to me."). ...
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