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“community blogs at HillaryClinton.com aren’t created by the Clinton campaign. They’re created by people like you and me. But guess what? BarackObama.com has community blogs also. And I don’t see any Hillary-bashing headlines there.
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“Police have charged a Brampton woman who sent hundreds of rambling emails to Premier Dalton McGuinty with threatening a member of his staff – but she contends it’s all a cultural misunderstanding.”
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“In short, Obama was saying this: “If the essential substance that makes up our nation is equality, then this is the first time that I can say our nation’s equality is not questionable, defective, or sub-par.””
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“Mrs. Clinton delivered a blistering speech on Monday that compared Mr. Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience to that of the candidate George W. Bush.”
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Torontonian wrote:
For the second link, that’s so wrong! Not just Indian people use that slang, either. “OMG, if she’s late again, I’m going to kill her,” is pretty normal to hear especially among females of different races here. I don’t know if that slang has a minority cultural origin.
This is so bizarre. I don’t think this is about Vir not understanding colloquially appropriate communication. This is about the staff member and McGuinty not understanding Toronto slang.
Posted 27 Feb 2008 at 9:06 am ¶
Cynthia wrote:
Torontonian,
Do people really say “OMG, if she’s late again, I’m going to kill her” here? I thought it was more like “OMG, if she’s late again, she’s TOTALLY DEAD!” (or is that a white girl thing to say? I don’t really understand Anglicized “ethnic slang” unless it’s Cantonese.) And you only do that in a casual e-mail. I think Vir overestimated how casual you can be with a government staff member. Her e-mail to the staff member was completely unprofessional, IMHO.
Posted 27 Feb 2008 at 9:40 am ¶
Torontonian wrote:
I hear both. Either way, social ineptness does not warrant arrest.
Posted 27 Feb 2008 at 10:07 pm ¶
Cynthia C wrote:
Torontonian,
You can never be too careful when it comes to e-mail. Had Vir spoken to the assistant/staff member over the phone, it would have been a different story.
Posted 28 Feb 2008 at 7:30 am ¶