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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by calambrac on Thursday August 06, 2009 @04:09PM (#746285)
Yeah. Except that he specifically mentioned Wiktionary as the source, and even if UD was the dictionary in question: why do you think they decided to name it "Urban Dictionary"? I'm sure that it was just completely coincidental that they picked 'urban' for a site built around defining slang terms.
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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by stepherm on Thursday August 06, 2009 @05:05PM (#746393)
Why does "Urban" necessarily imply "poor minority"? In most urban areas there are plenty of people that are not "poor minorities".
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Re:Phil Schiller Responds to App Store Dictionary Censoring by calambrac on Thursday August 06, 2009 @05:34PM (#746454)
It doesn't 'necessarily' imply that, but it is a widely-used euphemism for inner city hip-hop culture. Acting like it's not, that the term arises from the name of the slang dictionary (and not the other way around), is just wrong.
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