Originally Posted by
Throbert McGee Ну вот вам бесплатный урок про америнско-английский сленг: У нас, кто говорит такие вещи как вы говорили вверху, тех называем "white trash", "rednecks" и возможно "hillbillies". И вообще услышать такую речь как "n*ggers" и "f*ggots" от человека, у кого среди друзей нет ни одного негра ни гея, сразу указывает всем, что он необразованный, некультурный, ужасно провинциальный "trash" -- т.е., мусор.
To put it another way, Basil, if you were to come visiting America, and you met a nice young American woman with a good college education and she decided to introduce you to her parents and friends, she would be rather severely embarrassed if you were to say "Hey, nice girl's parents, guess what? I think that f*ggots ought to be isolated from society. Not that I hate f*ggots, of course -- the only people I truly hate are racists and blacks."
And the poor young woman would be forced to whisper, "Mom and Dad, you'll have to forgive Basil. He can't help the way he talks -- he's only a Russian, after all."