Ms. DSTCHAOS, I believe this is the first time I've agreed with you! :D

Have a great Thursday!!!

Feel better soon!

We were worried about you!

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Yes, lame as it is, we get it. Don't want to say "frat"? Fine, don't say it. Think it sounds disrespectful or carries negative connotations? Say so and don't use it. But since "frat" is not an obscenity, leave this stupid, stupid comparison out of it.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who's had that thought. And really, those who associate "frat" as a negative, probably also think of Greeks as a whole as a negative.

the non-obscene options are "would you call your mother a moth?" or "would you call a sorority a sore?"

The c-word one just seems to make the biggest impression that you shouldn't do this.

Don't you mean spectacular?

Oh no wait, that's mine that are spectacular. Carry on.

Non-obscene, but still stupid because unlike "frat," "moth" and "sore" are actual words with meanings one wouldn't want to associate with mothers and sororities.

No, I wouldn't call my mother a "moth," but I would call her a "mom." Disrespectful?

I guess it's also disrespectful to say "CalTech" instead of "California Institute of Technology," or, say, "Pitt" instead of "University of Pittsburgh"? ("Pitt" is especially bad -- are we saying that it's "the pits"?)

We shorten words and names in English all the time. Far from being considered disrespectful, it's often considered a way of showing endearment or, at least, comfortable familiarity. The only reason some people (very few, if any, of whom I have "met" anywhere other than GC, I would note) have a problem with "frat" is because of the connotations summoned up for some in the general population by terms like "frat party" and "frat house." It's PC masquarading as PR, pure and simple.

awww thank you :)

No, we are not saying it's the pits. We're saying it's Pitt. It's nothing bad, although some dingdongs at the University disagreed.

frat is vulgar, IMO.

That is totally what I meant. I'm so insufferable I can't seem to get Seinfeld references right.

My point exactly. Nothing inherently wrong with Pitt, nothing inherently wrong with frat, although some (okay, I won't say dingdongs) apparently disagree as to both.

lol, that is all.