And so it begins...I wonder if he'll get to coach a game?
Quote:Alabama's Saban Addresses Use of Ethnic Phrase
Saban is the former LSU and Miami Dolphins coach
Jan. 31, 2007
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -As an audiotape spread on the Internet, Alabama coach Nick Saban acknowledged Wednesday using a phrase considered derogatory to Cajuns but said he doesn't condone such language and merely was repeating something a friend told him.
Saban, a former LSU and Miami Dolphins coach, used an ethnic slur Jan. 3 while telling Florida reporters in Tuscaloosa an anecdote about an LSU fan's angry reaction to his hiring.
When asked about the LSU fans' reaction, Saban related a phone call from a friend on the LSU board of trustees, whom he did not name. In what seemed to be an attempt at humor, Saban told of the friend's encounter with an LSU fan, who speaks in a Cajun dialect.
"He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl," Saban said on the taped comments. "He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coonass guys that talk funny.
"I can't talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can."
Continuing to tell the story, Saban then quoted the worker's vulgar comment about Saban going to Alabama.
Saban, in a statement Wednesday, said the word "can be taken as derogatory by some people."
"Those comments need to be placed in the proper context, so as to understand the meaning of what was said," Saban said. "The words were used in paraphrasing a story told to me by a friend. I was simply using the same wording used by the person who told me the story.
"The term in question is not language that I use or condone, and I can understand how some would take offense. However, I think it must be noted that those comments were made 'off the record' and the words merely reflected an anecdote that was told to me using that language."
Warren Perrin, president of the Council for Development of French in Louisiana, said the term is "highly offensive."
"I routinely state that the use of that term is highly offensive to descendants of Acadians, who are commonly referred to as Cajuns," Perrin said.
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I agree Im a coonass and proud of it, how is that an ethnic slur and more importantly who is reporting this in a newspaper? Im tellin ya man they get obsessive every day, tomorrow the Birmingham news will run an ad on sabans favorite toothpast and why.
Didn't anyone clue Saban in? It's only okay to use ethnic slurs within one's own ethnic group.
Besides, the only unpardonable sin in the eyes of Todd nation is losing.
I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Grammar-Nazi Wrote:And so it begins...I wonder if he'll get to coach a game?
Quote:Alabama's Saban Addresses Use of Ethnic Phrase
Saban is the former LSU and Miami Dolphins coach
Jan. 31, 2007
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -As an audiotape spread on the Internet, Alabama coach Nick Saban acknowledged Wednesday using a phrase considered derogatory to Cajuns but said he doesn't condone such language and merely was repeating something a friend told him.
Saban, a former LSU and Miami Dolphins coach, used an ethnic slur Jan. 3 while telling Florida reporters in Tuscaloosa an anecdote about an LSU fan's angry reaction to his hiring.
When asked about the LSU fans' reaction, Saban related a phone call from a friend on the LSU board of trustees, whom he did not name. In what seemed to be an attempt at humor, Saban told of the friend's encounter with an LSU fan, who speaks in a Cajun dialect.
"He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl," Saban said on the taped comments. "He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coonass guys that talk funny.
"I can't talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can."
Continuing to tell the story, Saban then quoted the worker's vulgar comment about Saban going to Alabama.
Saban, in a statement Wednesday, said the word "can be taken as derogatory by some people."
"Those comments need to be placed in the proper context, so as to understand the meaning of what was said," Saban said. "The words were used in paraphrasing a story told to me by a friend. I was simply using the same wording used by the person who told me the story.
"The term in question is not language that I use or condone, and I can understand how some would take offense. However, I think it must be noted that those comments were made 'off the record' and the words merely reflected an anecdote that was told to me using that language."
Warren Perrin, president of the Council for Development of French in Louisiana, said the term is "highly offensive."
"I routinely state that the use of that term is highly offensive to descendants of Acadians, who are commonly referred to as Cajuns," Perrin said.
Not that I really care, but this will probably only serve to deepen Bammers love for the man. Now he just needs to make a comment about being afraid to recruit athletes from certain Birmingham schools for fear of traveling into "those" neighborhoods and he'll be a legend...
ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Really? I thought you were just 50% ***. I never knew about the "coon" part.
lmfao lmfao lmfao
Grammar-Nazi Wrote:ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Really? I thought you were just 50% ***. I never knew about the "coon" part.
lmfao lmfao lmfao
You obviously skipped math, GN. Attalla is 50% coonass, 50% ***.
blazr Wrote:Grammar-Nazi Wrote:ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Really? I thought you were just 50% ***. I never knew about the "coon" part.
lmfao lmfao lmfao
You obviously skipped math, GN. Attalla is 50% coonass, 50% ***.
I'm a grammarian, not a mathematician.
Grammar-Nazi Wrote:blazr Wrote:Grammar-Nazi Wrote:ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Really? I thought you were just 50% ***. I never knew about the "coon" part.
lmfao lmfao lmfao
You obviously skipped math, GN. Attalla is 50% coonass, 50% ***.
I'm a grammarian, not a mathematician.
Honest question: does being a grammarian qualify you as a philologist?
blazr Wrote:Grammar-Nazi Wrote:blazr Wrote:Grammar-Nazi Wrote:ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Really? I thought you were just 50% ***. I never knew about the "coon" part.
lmfao lmfao lmfao
You obviously skipped math, GN. Attalla is 50% coonass, 50% ***.
I'm a grammarian, not a mathematician.
Honest question: does being a grammarian qualify you as a philologist?
I would have to say no. One doesn't have to be a philologist to be a grammarian. However, I am also a copy editor, and therefore, I consider myself a philologist. I don't think you can be a copy editor unless you are a grammarian; BUT, you can be a grammarian without being a copy editor. Copy editing deals with issues of fact, meaning and accuracy, which, by definition, is philology.
So, I am a philologist, but not because I'm a grammarian. And, there are some philologists who are not grammarians, as well.
Are you confused yet? ;-)
Grammar-Nazi Wrote:blazr Wrote:Grammar-Nazi Wrote:blazr Wrote:Grammar-Nazi Wrote:ATTALLABLAZE Wrote:I am 50% coonass. What the hell is the big deal? If anyone is offended over that they need to get a life............
Really? I thought you were just 50% ***. I never knew about the "coon" part.
lmfao lmfao lmfao
You obviously skipped math, GN. Attalla is 50% coonass, 50% ***.
I'm a grammarian, not a mathematician.
Honest question: does being a grammarian qualify you as a philologist?
I would have to say no. One doesn't have to be a philologist to be a grammarian. However, I am also a copy editor, and therefore, I consider myself a philologist. I don't think you can be a copy editor unless you are a grammarian; BUT, you can be a grammarian without being a copy editor. Copy editing deals with issues of fact, meaning and accuracy, which, by definition, is philology.
So, I am a philologist, but not because I'm a grammarian. And, there are some philologists who are not grammarians, as well.
Are you confused yet? ;-)
Good thing you're not a philarian. That would sound like you have worms.
According to my wife I am 100% azz....... ;-)
so you are the whole a$$ or the a$$ hole?
Just an Azz Not a hole or the whole but just an azz.........
I used to live in Louisiana and the term "coonass" only offended the cajuns. In fact, a lot of time people would point blank ask me since I was not from Louisiana, "Am I a cajun or a coonass?". How you answered that question was important because I learned that if you called a cajun a coonass, you would be insulting him. I also learned that if you called a coonass a cajun, you insulted him too.
I remember one client asked me that when I went into his office and I looked around and saw a mat at his feet. Louisiana is the Pelican State. His mat said, "Louisiana the Peli-coon state". I said man, you are a COONASS! He said, "You damn right, come on in and sit in my office!"
It is definitely not a racial slur.