Not even native European words are safe from the barbarians.
1 posted on
10/12/2017 12:41:30 AM PDT by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
I wonder how many Canadian bureaucrats have hair cut or styled to hide lobotomy scars.
2 posted on
10/12/2017 12:51:08 AM PDT by
BigEdLB
(To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
To: Jonty30
Going to have to rename their province as well.
TORONTO is a name taken from the MOHAWK indians.
3 posted on
10/12/2017 12:52:07 AM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
To: Jonty30
This is sooooo moronic, even for the PC set. The word "chief" goes back many centuries (and in multiple languages) before anyone was using it in relation to Native American tribes:
ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French chief, chef, based on Latin caput ‘head.’
5 posted on
10/12/2017 12:54:06 AM PDT by
Enchante
(Bill, Anthony, Harvey .... how does lesbo Hillary manage to surround herself with male predators???)
To: Jonty30
From http://www.etymonline.com/word/chief
c. 1300, “head, leader, captain; the principal or most important part of anything;” from Old French chief “leader, ruler, head” of something, “capital city” (10c., Modern French chef), from Vulgar Latin *capum, from Latin caput “head,” also “leader, chief person; summit; capital city” (from PIE root *kaput- “head”). Meaning “head of a clan” is from 1570s; later extended to American Indian tribes. Commander-in-chief attested from 1660s.
The word was not taken from their culture. They can call the heads of their tribes whatever is from their tradition and language. Chief or chieftain is simply a general word for leader.
6 posted on
10/12/2017 1:01:16 AM PDT by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Jonty30
Yep. It’s from the French, but some morons are pretending to be offended. Can I still use the Greek word “moron”, or should I say “person of alternate mental ability”?
7 posted on
10/12/2017 1:51:37 AM PDT by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: Jonty30
My Sides!! 😂😂😂
9 posted on
10/12/2017 1:58:26 AM PDT by
4Liberty
(MSM = Democrat's PR firm)
To: Jonty30
Really; it wasn’t like they had a “school board sachem”...
10 posted on
10/12/2017 2:47:05 AM PDT by
kearnyirish2
(Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
To: Jonty30
... eye roll ... (audible).
To: Jonty30
Toronto Ontario Canada....all native in origin. I dare say the whole lot should be renamed Idiotville in Moronia.
13 posted on
10/12/2017 4:08:00 AM PDT by
xp38
To: Jonty30
The leader of Control weighs in
14 posted on
10/12/2017 4:14:58 AM PDT by
xp38
To: Jonty30
The irony is melted and dripping off of this one.
“Chief”, is not an indian word. Native Americans didn’t know the word “chief” before they learned English.
It’s a English word used to denote the “top guy”, or “head of a group”.
People just scour the internet to find SOMETHING to be offended by.
Sheeeeeeesh.
15 posted on
10/12/2017 4:49:20 AM PDT by
FrankR
(On the knees is not a good place to be...a man on the knees is only half a man.....)
To: Jonty30
Rut Roh.look out PC USN and all you CPO’s.
Your days a re numbered
To: Jonty30
instead of seeing it as possibly injuring native sensibilities, why not see it as honoring the person with that title?
Dont; they see they are the ones attaching negativity to the title/word?
some people can only see three one lens and it’s warped.
18 posted on
10/12/2017 5:05:39 AM PDT by
b4me
(God Bless the USA)
To: Jonty30
True.
Middle English, from Anglo-French chief, chef “head”, chief, from Latin caput “head”...
19 posted on
10/12/2017 5:57:42 AM PDT by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: Jonty30
Isn’t the affect the opposite? They are taking respected Indian/native american words, and completely sending them down the memory hole.
20 posted on
10/12/2017 6:03:56 AM PDT by
PGR88
To: Jonty30
I see Canada is years ahead of the USA in the rush to destroy itself.
22 posted on
10/12/2017 6:22:11 AM PDT by
I want the USA back
(*slam is a violent political movement that hides behind the illusion of religion.)
To: Jonty30
El Jefe’ de nada might work better..................
23 posted on
10/12/2017 6:38:10 AM PDT by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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