On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
As an American, I am required to fear what might happen if the rouge states got a hold of Pd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouge_%28cosmetics%29
"rouge" is pronounced with a long "oo" and soft "g" "rogue" is pronounced with a long "oh" and hard "g"
(but in french the latter is more like : rug states)
I thought he was making another joke, like the "access/axis" one. The "red states" here are the ones that vote republican.
MB
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, Matt Barber wrote:
I thought he was making another joke, like the "access/axis" one.
I saw so many misspellings of rogue vs rouge all over the internet, that I have trouble figuring out whether any english-speaker is making a joke or not. However, I'm quite certain very many people would miss the joke entirely, if there is one...
The "red states" here are the ones that vote republican.
In much of Canadian politics, it's the other way around : red corresponds to what would be called "democrats" in the USA. (There even used to be a "Parti Rouge" like that, spelled like that), and there are multiple "blue"-coloured parties with completely different opinions. Also, "red" has been the colour of the USSR flag and of the PRC, so, it has communist overtones... but the flag of Canada is quite red too. So, there are plenty of ambiguous jokes one can make with the colours. I think that party colour jokes are not very "in" at the moment.
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