About those slurs that "just slip out"

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	About those slurs that "just slip out"

Lexica

8-4-2009 1:43 PM

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jrc, apologies, insults, bias, slurs

Lexica says:

Once again, Jon Carroll nails it.

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8-4-2009 6:42 PM

masbury

How true. It is to be in there in the first place to slip out.

8-4-2009 7:37 PM

tazmanium

True enough.

8-4-2009 10:26 PM

tanyamm

I've never thought about it quite like that but yes, that's so very true.

8-5-2009 3:04 PM

David Hughes

Couldn't be more true!

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