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Exactly how it looks - “Spack”
by babelfish 6y ago
Exactly how it looks - “Spack”
- hkt 6y agoUnfortunately, in the UK this is a deeply hateful term for disabled people. Actual hate speech if you couple it with violence etc. What's the old saying? Two cultures divided by a common language..
- babelfish 6y agoWow, I had no idea - thanks for the heads up
- jfk13 6y agoInteresting -- as a UK native, I don't recognise that. Maybe it's limited to certain regions/subcultures/???
- chris_j 6y agoThe word was definitely used (and was understood to be offensive) when I was growing up - in Worcestershire in the 90s. I wonder if it's fallen out of use since then.
- jfk13 6y agoI'm assuming it was meant as a shortening of "spastic"? In which case the version I'm familiar with would be "spaz", though it must be years -- probably decades -- since I've run across it.
- hkt 6y agoI'm from the midlands and live in Yorkshire. It is recognised by people in both places. Odd.
- missedthecue 6y agoWow never heard of this and I lived in the UK for an extended period of time. Thanks for the info.
- idlemind 6y agoIt’s not in particularly common usage anymore though, if at all.
- sdflhasjd 6y agoI came across "spack"[1], another unfortunately named repo recently as well. Another good one is "nonce" - seen frequently in oauth and crypto - always gets a laugh out of the juniors. [1] https://github.com/spack/spack https://github.com/spack/spack
- sixothree 6y agoI ask because it looks like "space" to me.