On Friday 29 April 2011 05:59:21 Christian PERRIER wrote: > > website built by a bloke. No disrespect intended to any man with > > ^^^^^ > > I just followed that thread but I'm blocked by something: as a > non-native speaker of English language, I can't get all the subtleties > of the above word. For some reason (which may be wrong), I take it as > offensive
Here in England (and I know such things may differ across the English speaking world) the term "bloke" carries no derogatory statement or implication whatsoever. From wiktionary <quote> (Australian, New Zealand, UK, South African, colloquial) A man (usually in the sense: the typical ‘man on the street’, an ordinary, down-to-earth man </quote> In this discussion, it is just a colloquial substitute for the word "man", with no conotations at all. It is most certainly not offensive. The word in general is either neuter or intended as a compliment. The reason that you can't get all the subtleties is that there aren't any. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104290808.40263.lisi.re...@gmail.com
