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| Outland Predator:
Because the way it's used nowadays is incorrect? |
| SetGaming:
--- Quote from: Outland Predator on March 28, 2017, 11:29:26 PM ---The term "ghetto" is Italian and it referred to the section of Venice where all the Jews lived. --- End quote --- the reason why this term is used in the modern day is because modern "ghettos" mirror the conditions that original Italian Jewish ghettos used to have - run down, poor, economically ignored and commonly filled with large sets of prejudiced people. so red spy is wrong about saying that "italian ghettos aren't remotely similar to modern ghettos," but there is no real need for clarification. they have similar meanings today as 100 years ago. edit: this is also a subject about how language evolves. the modern usage isn't "incorrect" because the word evolved to the definition i described above. |
| Red Spy:
--- Quote from: Outland Predator on March 28, 2017, 11:29:26 PM ---The term "ghetto" is Italian and it referred to the section of Venice where all the Jews lived. --- End quote --- Did you close your eyes for the second half of my post? --- Quote from: Outland Predator on March 28, 2017, 11:36:39 PM ---Because the way it's used nowadays is incorrect? --- End quote --- Words evolve. 3rd world used to mean counties that weren't allied with the US or USSR but now it means countries synonymous with stuffhole |
| Aplem:
Well the way I see it mondays are mondays. Tis' as simple as that. |
| Outland Predator:
--- Quote from: Aplem on March 28, 2017, 11:47:20 PM ---Well the way I see it mondays are mondays. Tis' as simple as that. --- End quote --- Spoken like a true poet. |
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