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Re: Billy's grammar confusion re: "pimping"
I always thought case pimps was short for case pimples - small, annoying
disturbances on the surface of the case.
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> From: ross smith <smithr@wfu.edu>
> To: Issues concerning CEDA Debate <CEDA-L@cornell.edu>
> Subject: Re: Billy's grammar confusion re: "pimping"
> Date: Thursday, May 01, 1997 10:47 AM
>
>
> Pimp is no way comparable to "gyp" (derived from Gypsy) or "jew"
> (obviously derived), or "nigger". Pimp offends no group except pimps,
> who, in my opinion should be verbally degraded.
>
> But when you call someone a pimp who is not a pimp, that is a mean
> insult, nasty.
>
> Now "pimping" evidence should mean, to keep things straight, selling
> evidence and getting benefit from it that is not rightfully yours. But,
> as used in this context, to pimp evidence is to degrade it through verbal
> means, which does retain some of the meaning of pimp in that a pimp
> degrades women by verbal means (as well as by commercial and physical and
> other means).
>
> We must watch our language, but we don't need to worry about offending
> that opressed minority known aqs pimps.
>
> Ross Smith
> Wake Forest University Debate
> 910-759-5268
> Box 7324 Reynolda Station
> Winston-Salem, NC 27109
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