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There are no strict rules for transliteration; Yevgeneya Belyakova is as good a transliteration as Yevgeniya Belyakova, Jevgenija Beljakova, Evgenia Beliakova, and so on. Given that most...

Brett makes a lot of typing mistakes, but he is a native English speaker, dear RobHammack.

TATY: I am aware that it was a joke, but many people(including myself) find those terms offensive, so...

Understood. But, you see, I needed at least one non-Asian person to agree with me, otherwise it would make me seem like I was jumping at trifles and that such behaviour is acceptable among...

I can understand people using such terms in the context of close friends joking about with each other, but even in that sense I don't like it. But it is certainly not acceptable coming from someone...

I don't consider the word "Oriental" to be offensive, actually, just out-of-date, as I've said a couple times in this thread.

At least good old Maik has his head screwed on straight. For a moment there, I had almost lost hope in the British :)

He said something bad about Asians, yet the only negative reaction was from me(and yes, I am an East Asian, if you haven't figured it out by now, TATY).

I wonder if the reaction from the forum would have been the same had he said "We call Africans n*ggers."

BTW, TATY, I don't know what passes for funny in the UK these days(I thought British humor...

Fuck you.

Man, I have a German grammar book from 1914. They print the German in "Fraktur."

Who lives in the US, you or me? :D Uneducated people might find them offensive, just as uneducated Asians might find the term "Oriental" offensive. But I said educated people would not find them...

"Afro-American" and "Negro" are not derogatory, and educated people would not find these terms derogatory. They are simply outdated.

Eh? Canada is a country too. But that's pretty bad, anyway.

About "Ind" meaning native, no, it doesn't. It refers to things that are related to India. I believe it's from the word "hind" - "hindi"...

Yep, those from India or of Indian descent. Since I was talking about Asian-Americans, I was getting tired of tacking on "-American" to the end of everything. Indian-Americans to be specific.

The humorous thing is that while browsing through an Asian-American forum, I noticed that the people there of East Asian descent seem to classify Indians as "Asian-Americans" as well. And they all...

I was wondering if British English differentiated East Asians(people from countries like China, Japan, Korea, etc.) and South Asians(people from countries like India, Bangladesh, etc.). In American...