To: SeekAndFind
AFAIK: He didn’t say “retarded”; he said “effing retards.”
ARAIK: “Retarded” WAS the euphemistic term, originally. “Retard” was ALWAYS a disparaging term, never used by doctors, for instance.
60 posted on
02/06/2010 3:14:11 PM PST by
Arthur McGowan
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To: Arthur McGowan
Retard was ALWAYS a disparaging term, never used by doctors, for instance.
So I guess "tard" is farther along that continuum?
62 posted on
02/06/2010 3:20:37 PM PST by
aruanan
To: Arthur McGowan
Retarded: adjective.
Retard: noun - one who is retarded.
Get over it already.
66 posted on
02/06/2010 3:34:32 PM PST by
Moltke
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