to think people shouldn't use words if they dont understand the meaning

[elmoandella]

i am fed up of the term hun being used on this site is an example. it is being used to offend people who buy and sell on prams in another thread.

where i come from this term originates (and still stands for) an offensive term a catholic uses to say someone is a protestant.

therefore it is extremely offensive to call me a "pram hun"

why use a word if you dont knows its meaning.

Love this thread! Full marks to OP for some very superior shit stirring, keep it up.

My DP is a 'hun' in the sense that he supports the 'gers, but I've never in my life heard him or anybody else in his gang use the word hun to mean anything apart from honey.

As an aside, my DP sometimes lurks in the Rangers forums. He laughs a lot at the posts, and I said, those Rangers fans must be really witty, you keep pissing yourself at them. No, said my hun, it's the hilariously bad spelling I'm laughing at.

Bless.

Fwiw, anybody at any time of day in Old Firm colours says to me 'economically and intellectually impoverished' more then anything else. Got to love Frankie Boyle's stuff about old firm fans on holiday. I shouldn't laugh but...

There are no football fans on this planet like hardcore old firm fans. Luckily my DP is a posh fan and only watches from the safety of Sky Sports

i'm offended by hun because it should be hon.

Aitch, I've battled with that one too. My DP and I call each other hun all the time, and I just think that when written down, it works better as 'hun'.

'Hon' is weird looking and suggestive of Conservative front benchers.

What's a pedant in love supposed to do...

use 'dearest'?

dearie me got the wrong end of the stick!"hun" is a salutation a derivation of honey

Aitch, hun short for hunny, a la Pooh Bear

I think it's spelt hun because hon isn't said as a shortening for honey IYSWIM.

it is, in proper novels and such...

well it wouldn't be hun, that's for sure. anyway, it's pronounced differently.

i think the op is absolutely sporadic. or is it ambivilent. or demented. connected? penile? vibrant? noxious?

My goodness, Im embarassed that I must come from roughly the same area as the OP.
Talk about taking things out of context and needing to get a life, mind you it is very cold up here and hypothermia can cause dementia like symptoms