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What is "peeps", "Big whoop"?

 
 
Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 12:49 am

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Mr.A: A great humiliation for a great America: Sgt. Bales (the U.S. Army serviceman suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers).

Mr. B (from Canada): Not sure how it's humiliating... he killed some peeps. Big whoop people do it every day.
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 01:15 am
peeps (infantile) (slang) (jocular) = "people".
big whoop (loud shout) (sarcastic) = "so what?"


oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 01:31 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:

peeps (infantile) (slang) (jocular) = "people".
big whoop (loud shout) (sarcastic) = "so what?"



The brain of Mr.B is paralyzed?
Cycloptichorn
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 01:35 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:

contrex wrote:

peeps (infantile) (slang) (jocular) = "people".
big whoop (loud shout) (sarcastic) = "so what?"



The brain of Mr.B is paralyzed?


More accurate to say,

'He killed some people, so what? It happens every day.'

Cycloptichorn
oristarA
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 01:46 am
@Cycloptichorn,
Cycloptichorn wrote:

oristarA wrote:

contrex wrote:

peeps (infantile) (slang) (jocular) = "people".
big whoop (loud shout) (sarcastic) = "so what?"



The brain of Mr.B is paralyzed?


More accurate to say,

'He killed some people, so what? It happens every day.'

Cycloptichorn


Such thoughts are tragic and shocking.

Thank you.
Cycloptichorn
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 01:47 am
@oristarA,
True, I do agree with you; only commenting on the linguistics of the matter.

Cycloptichorn
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 02:23 am
@contrex,
contrex wrote:
peeps (infantile) (slang) (jocular) = "people".
big whoop (loud shout) (sarcastic) = "so what?"
Contrex is right this time.





David
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 03:03 am
At a first glance, the two utterances (which are given without context):

Mr A: A humiliation for America: one of their soldiers murdered some villagers.

Mr B: Not really humiliating: people get murdered every day. So what?

This could seem as if Mr B is an exceptionally cold hearted person, but beware! There is such a thing as irony. he could be saying "Humiliation is a matter of perception, and perceptions can be managed - by politicians and by the media. People get murdered every day by deranged people, both in civilian life and in war zones, and the politicians who send young men into wars don't really care very much, either about the damaged soldiers or the people they kill".
Joe Nation
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 06:07 am
@contrex,
Do give mister B so much credit. He sounds to me like your typical immature, unthinking, asshole who has neither the intelligence to grasp the situation nor, apparently, the linguistic skills to say anything meaningful. It's not big deal to him because, he thinks, he is not affected by it.

Joe(I'm making breakfast)Nation
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PUNKEY
 
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Reply Sat 17 Mar, 2012 06:26 am
I think Mr. B is responding to the choice of word Mr. A used: America feeling "humiliation" for these murders.

Perhaps Mr. B would not object so much to another descriptive word, like "tragic, worrisome, perplexing, shameful, etc."
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