Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Bieber's Jewman

from TV

It looks like the Copyright Sheriff got to this video clip. But apparently an interviewer from New Zealand asked heartthrob Justin Bieber about a "German." Bieber got uncomfortable and said that we don't use that term in America. But the lad is not a moron -- he's just sensitive to discriminatory language. He thought his Kiwi interlocutor said "Jewman," which we indeed do not say in American English.

I had this friend from NZ who got a huge laugh every time he referred to "the deck" because it sounded to our North American ears like "the dick." As in, "Would you like to join me for a beer on the dick?"

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