kype

[Eric Nielsen]

I've heard the word "kype" used as a synonym for "steal". I think it was
from my time in the northern Rockies. Many people in the backwater West say
racial slurs more from ignorance than malice. Believe it or not, I have
heard people there use the "n" word freely in the company of African
Americans totally oblivious to the fact that they were being
insulting--until I informed them. These were people who had lived very
isolated lives. They had no clue that it was insulting. Of course, some knew
better, but still had had little or no contact with a black or jewish
person--and so, of course, still spoke from ignorance.

25 years in N. Idaho,
Eric


aOn Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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>  My ex-wife is working with a bunch of very strangely bigoted people.
> Last night, the employer threw a "party" for the monthly birthdays and
> offered the employees a cake.
>
> One of the other employees commented to my ex, "I'm going to kype that
> cake from you."
>
> This made no sense. "Skype?"
>
> "No, kype. You know, like an insult to Jewish people."
>
> "Jip? Kiek?" "Yeah, it's like 'jip' and 'kiek'."
>
> Even replacing it with the only plausible "jew" still would make no
> sense: "I'm going to jew that cake from you."
>
> People say the strangest things...
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>     VS-)
>
> PS: This followed an antisemitic comment from someone else earlier in
> the week that also contained some odd phrasing. Perhaps it's the
> rarefied air in the Rockies... not enough oxygen. Both comments were
> made not only with the knowledge that she was Jewish, but /because/ of it.
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