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Originally posted by decadence
*Shrug*. No, but I'd call my telephone a 'phone.
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Beautiful, decadence! I've always thought that "would you call your 'country' your 'c*#t'" is one of the most stupid comparisons possible, since last time I checked "frat" wasn't considered obscene. People shorten names for things and institutions all the time without meaning or conveying any disrespect. Just ask the students at Caltech.
As for me, I don't use the word "frat," but I don't get offended at all if someone else uses it, as long as it doesn't appear that the person using it means it in a derogatory or disrespectful sense -- even then, its going to be a very small degree of offense. Without question, "frat" has taken on the derogatory connotations that others here have described. But I'd rather save my "I'm-offended energy" for bigger things.