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"I don't know. Why is it insulting?"
The word little is usually used as a reference to a person's physical size. I realize that your use of the word is somewhat divorced from that meaning, but it seems to me to be somewhat analogous to the use of the word "gay" to mean "bad". Like, if you had said "quimper666 is gay" in the way that a lot of young people would to mean "quimper666 is a dumbass" (see this thread for a discussion on this use of the word gay), I expect you would realize that it might cause offense to gay people. Do you see how using the word "little" to mean "inferior" could be insulting to, say, short people? One could argue all day about how using little in such a way is not really meant as offensive to short people (in much the same way one would argue that derogatory use of the word gay is not offensive to gay people), but what you're left with is the fact that you may, inadvertantly, be offending people. If you want to call someone "small minded" or whathaveyou, why not just say "small-minded" or "stupid" or any one of the many available terms that actually refers directly to their current mental functioning (if that's what you want to insult them for)?
And in-jokes are great if you use them around people who understand their meaning. This is a publicly viewable board, and there are way more than 3 people here. |
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(we climbed the second highest mountain there too, it rocked.)
