by JAKE_HOLMES » Thu May 12, 2011 10:24 am
It’s not that we don’t remember that old slang. It was just a different time back then. Words like retard, kelso, beaner, spic, n*gger, white-paddy, okie. Those were part of everyday speech.. sometimes said in anger.. sometime in jest, mostly without a thought. Watch old reruns of Archie Bunker to see how different the times were. We said things casually then that most of us couldn’t force out of our mouth in public these days.
Those lost words represent a piece of Lost Fresno, probably good that many were ‘lost’.. but somewhere along the line we also kind of lost our sense of humor about ourselves, our differences and our quirks. So it goes. I haven’t got much to add to the original post, but it did get me thinking and remembering.
It’s not that we don’t remember that old slang. It was just a different time back then. Words like retard, kelso, beaner, spic, n*gger, white-paddy, okie. Those were part of everyday speech.. sometimes said in anger.. sometime in jest, mostly without a thought. Watch old reruns of Archie Bunker to see how different the times were. We said things casually then that most of us couldn’t force out of our mouth in public these days.
Those lost words represent a piece of Lost Fresno, probably good that many were ‘lost’.. but somewhere along the line we also kind of lost our sense of humor about ourselves, our differences and our quirks. So it goes. I haven’t got much to add to the original post, but it did get me thinking and remembering.