A tipster spotted this angry letter about the Ground Zero Not-Mosque on the website of Raleigh, North Carolina’s News & Observer newspaper. Instead of “Muslim,” it uses the word “muslin” — which your Wonkette uses all the time, because “muslin” is what the Prophet Muhammad actually called his followers. If you are a linguistics professor or a marketing guru, be sure to use this letter as a case study when speaking about “social media influence on language” or some other nebulous topic. [Washington Post/Newsandobserver.com]
GETTING IT RIGHT
August 18, 2010
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The letter probably comes from nearby Cary, NC, which stands for “Containment Area for Retarded Yuppies”.
A lunguistics professor might also want to discuss how amazingly well the lime green, all capitals font works in the email forwards that my crazy uncle sends.
That’s nothing. I made up “fucktard.” True fact, you hear it everywhere now, but I was the first. Oh, and I started the tradition of ironically screaming “play freebird” at live bands. It was 1979, at The Shipwheel, in Brielle.
They may spell it “muslin”, but they say “moslum” and what they mean is “scary brown terr’ist 911!!1 NEVAR FORGIT!1″
Soon to be a new entry in “SkoalRebel’s Dikshunary for Morans”.
9/11 moved the goalposts on racism. Muslin is the brown paper sack of the new millennium.
Wouldn’t think the WaPoo and Newz&Berber would cotton to Muslins.
Well, let’s check with the Google A.I. …
The Googlez say that most traffic is related to this futbol coach named ‘Muslin’. Huh. Maybe that’s what that yard sign was complaining about the whole time?
The Minneapolis City Council just approved the construction of “Target Mosque” to celebrate the Twins’ thrilling extra-inning victory last night.
Only slightly less funny than when the ‘l’ is left off of ‘public’.
[re=641026]SmutBoffin[/re]: There is a little blip in these data around what appears to be 2008 election time, when commenters on poop blogs would have adopted the word. The blip also corresponds to some dumbass Aussie newspaper misspelling ‘muslim’ as ‘muslin’.
I get the news and disturber, trust me, this writer is one of the more brillant of those who take the time to opine to the online version
How dare freedom of religion apply to anyone other than Christians! Why does the constitution hate America?
What do you expect in copyediting from a newspaper that begins it’s name with an amperstand?
I like that the letter starts off reasonable and articulate but then in the last two lines old Don goes full retard with the Nobama-muslin-chain-email-conspiracy that goes all the way to the top.
Where the fuck did that “they build mosques to celebrate great victories” meme come from anyway?
Has this “Don Miles” learned nothing since the Cold War, when he was writing letters to the New and Observer about the threat posed by followers of Linen?
“…I think most persons recognize a poke in the eye with a sharp stick when they receive it.”
True.
But do they recognize a poke in the eye with a hard dick when they receive it? Because I am skull-fucking you in the fucking eye socket right this very minute, you fucking fabricist fuckhead.
The original “half-breed muslin” sign resides at the end of Don Miles’ driveway.
[re=641102]Whiskeybaby[/re]: Heard Monica Crowley trot that one out a couple of weeks ago, during one of her finger pointing tirades. She claimed that allowing a mosque to be built on Lower Manhattan would allow the Muslims to celebrate their victory over America.
It was a definite WTF? moment.
[re=641122]Extemporanus[/re]: Italislamist!
[re=641026]SmutBoffin[/re]: The Google also says that if you search for +Muslin +terrorist you get quite a lot of hits, and I’m not sure all of them are comedy.
See, in Russia, little tiny ones would be “Muschiks”. Or the really teeny-tiny cute ones would be called “Muslichka”.
That’s the diminutive. They do that all the time over there. Except nobody ever says “Putinchik”.
[re=641004]Gorillionaire[/re]:
Wrong! It’s Can’t Afford Raleigh Yet. Raleigh as in the Inside the Beltline Raleigh.
Don’t read (ha ha) too much into this. Residents of North Carolima have a long history of misspellings involving “N” and “M”. (Fun fact: in North Carolima, it’s called “the ‘M’-word”.)
Apparently it goes back to early days of making noonshine up in the hills. The testing techniques and white robes led to some slurred speech. It also led to hyper-sensitivity to color.
I believe that should be the Not-Ground-Zero Not-Mosque, if you please.
My authority? Not-Joe the Not-Plumber.
[re=641033]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: which is why I prefer “Repubican”.
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