He got it from the same place.
Check it out at http://www.merriam-webster.com.
At least we got him using a proper dictionary now.
~SD~
"Joseph A Nagy Jr" <pagan_prince at charter.net> wrote in message
news:3D58AAF8.6050602 at charter.net...
> John Knight wrote:
> > "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> > news:0mmglu4bjpmsuea3kp49jva6v8p22th430 at 4ax.com...> >
> >>cary at afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell) wrote:
> >>
> >>>< Do you realize that the definition of nigger is a piece of trash,
while
> >>
> > the slang
> >
> >>>< definition is "a <person who is a piece of trash". No mention of skin
> >>
> > color at
> >
> >>>< all. So, if he had trash children, so what? Did you forget he
willingly
> >>>< freed his slaves?
> >>>
> >>>Sadly, it's not even that benign. He freed only two during his
lifetime
> >>>and five more in his will. Three more ran away and were not pursued.
> >>>Around 130 were sold in auction after his death. Sold with as much
> >>>control of their own fates as the mice you buy to feed your pet snake.
> >>>Jefferson could have had it otherwise; it would have required but a
> >>
> > stroke
> >
> >>>of his pen.
> >>
> >>He could have, but he would have bankrupted his estate. Jefferson
> >>lived so far beyond his means during his life (albeit part of that
> >>time in the service of his country when the country did not have money
> >>to pay for the lavish entertainment budget expected of a European
> >>ambassador) that he was deeply in debt and nearly penniless by the
> >>time he died - except for his wealth in human beings (and I haven't
> >>checked whether he borrowed using THEM as collateral as well).
> >>
> >>lojbab
> >
> >
> > Mr. Jefferson didn't like the idea of slavery because he understood from
> > reading Greek classics in GREEK, and from his travels to Greece, that
> > there's no ROI on slavery. He knew that even though the Egyptians lived
on
> > the African Continent, there isn't a trace of evidence that they ever us
ed
> > nigger slaves, or even allowed them into the country. The fact that he
was
> > bankrupt was due partly to his KEEPING the slaves, as a favor to them,
> > because this was a time when releasing them could have been certain
death.
> > The ones he allowed to "escape" were just lucky they weren't caught.
> >
> > We should have followed his and Abraham Lincoln's advice to release the
> > niggers and send them back to Africa.
> >
> > I know you "wiberals" just HATE dictionary definitions, since they're so
> > confusing and confining and restrictive of your abundant intellects!
> >
> > So here's the "wiberal"'s definition of nigger:
> >
> >
> > =============================
> > Main Entry: nig·ger
> > Pronunciation: 'ni-g&r
> > Function: noun
> > Etymology: alteration of earlier neger, from Middle French negre, from
> > Spanish or Portuguese negro, from negro black, from Latin niger
> > Date: 1700
> > 1 usually offensive, see usage paragraph below : a black person
> > 2 usually offensive, see usage paragraph below : a member of any
> > dark-skinned race
> > 3 : a member of a socially disadvantaged class of persons <it's time for
> > somebody to lead all of America's niggers... all the people who feel
left
> > out of the political process -- Ron Dellums>
> > usage Nigger in senses 1 and 2 can be found in the works of such writers
of
> > the past as Joseph Conrad, Mark Twain, and Charles Dickens, but it now
ranks
> > as perhaps the most offensive and inflammatory racial slur in English.
Its
> > use by and among blacks is not always intended or taken as offensive,
but,
> > except in sense 3, it is otherwise a word expressive of racial hatred
and
> > bigotry.
> > =============================
> >
> >
> > First of all, even by this "wiberal"'s dictionary's definition, "piece
of
> > trash" ain't a part of the definition.
> >
> > Second of all, this REALLY insults niggers, because nigger is a nigger's
> > favorite word, and here this dictionary is telling niggers that whenever
> > they say "nigger" they must be expressing "racial hatred and bigotry",
which
> > is a dam. "wiberal" LIE.
> >
> > What is DISGUSTING is that you "wiberals" have taken a perfectly good
word,
> > one which is used by literally billions of people around the world, by
our
> > OWN legal system, in the Latin Language, and by niggers themselves, and
> > HIJACKED it to mean something that normal people do NOT agree it means,
> > which is exactly the OPPOSITE of its real meaning as used by the people
who
> > use it the most frequently--niggers.
> >
> > A FAR more disgusting, hateful, bigoted, and racist word is "wiberal",
> > because what it describes is a billion times worse than niggers.
> >
> > "Wiberal"!
> >
> > John Knight
> >
> >
>> I'd like to know where you got your definition, Mr. Knight, because I take
mine from Websters
> Dictionary, Third Collegiate Edition, (C)1997
>
