Quote Originally Posted by hoglahoo View Post
paki and jap are sometimes considered to be offensive slang

I defer to lincoln (one should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it)
I think I got that gist from Jim's OP, but I wanted to be sure. I don't disagree with that, but I do agree with OS in that the two media cannot be interpreted in the same way (though I understand the tendency we have to do this).