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Charles Koppelman

3:15 PM

Can't a person find a halakhic problem with just about anything if they look hard enough?

HodofHod

3:49 PM

@CharlesKoppelman ?

Charles Koppelman

@HodofHod Some questions posted here just seem like they're looking for problems in non-problematic situations

It upsets me when people want to be frummer than G-d

HodofHod

Thanks for the revision, btw.

Charles Koppelman

@HodofHod Oh yeah, i got the joke, just thought it would be unintentionally excluding some folks

HodofHod

@CharlesKoppelman Yay! I was worried no one did. You're absolutely right, though.

Charles Koppelman

If a Samaritan wanted to come along and make a pic, I'd have no problem :)

....I sorta consider it a part of my campaign to get the G word out of this site

HodofHod

3:54 PM

@CharlesKoppelman I'm trying to remember something I read on this topic.

@CharlesKoppelman Hm?

Charles Koppelman

@HodofHod usually I hear it in response to vegetarians (where I don't think it's fair)

@HodofHod goy

HodofHod

@CharlesKoppelman Ah. Yeah, I think that word has become essentially divorced from its original Hebrew meaning. I avoid its use at all costs, even ignoring the dejargonification guidlines

Charles Koppelman

@HodofHod Yeah, in English, it's almost entirely a slur.

HodofHod

Yep. Unfortunately, there are enough misguided Jews, who use it as such, to justify that interpretation.

Isaac Moses

4:09 PM

Q: Should we censor the term "goy" when used in English to mean "gentile"?

The word "goy", used in an English context, can mean: "Gentile" - colloquially and innocuously "Gentile" - as a disparaging slur (It can also mean "Nation" generically and innocuously in a Hebrew context.) Given that the disparaging usage is, in fact, found ("matzui") in the wild and is, in ...