Use of the I-word

May 19, 2017 @ 4:57 am · Filed by under Language and culture, Taboo vocabulary

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Trevor Noah explains the cultural constraints:

May 19, 2017 @ 4:57 am · Filed by under Language and culture, Taboo vocabulary


9 Comments

  1. David Marjanović said,

    May 19, 2017 @ 5:51 am

    Outdoing himself once again. :-)

  2. TonyK said,

    May 19, 2017 @ 7:17 am

    "The uploader has not made this video available in your country." (UK)

  3. J said,

    May 19, 2017 @ 8:13 am

    @TonyK Get a VPN already! ;-) "A whole new world…" :-)

  4. Guy said,

    May 19, 2017 @ 11:31 am

    @TonyK

    He's making fun of the media for saying "the I-word" instead of saying "impeachment". He then riffs on an analogy to the word "nigger" and facetiously explains that "media people" should never say the I-word, but it's okay for politicians to say it because it's their word.

  5. Chandra said,

    May 19, 2017 @ 2:10 pm

    @TonyK – Click the "watch on YouTube" link and then change "youtube" in the URL to "youpak". That works in Canada and I'm assuming elsewhere as well.

  6. Terry Hunt said,

    May 19, 2017 @ 7:56 pm

    @Chandra – FWIW, when I do that (having the same problem as Tony), Firefox says the destination is insecure and refuses to link.

  7. Rubrick said,

    May 20, 2017 @ 1:20 am

    The unequalable Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

  8. De l’auto-destruction en Amérique | Polit’bistro : des politiques, du café said,

    May 24, 2017 @ 12:01 am

    […] derniers jours ont fourni tout ce qu’il faut pour justifier d’une procédure d’impeachment contre Donald Trump, ou même, procédure tout à fait exceptionnelle qu’un ami au sens […]

  9. Chandra said,

    May 24, 2017 @ 11:51 am

    @Terry Hunt – Hm. I've never had any issues using the site with Chrome.

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