In article <2i25jbFi9cjjU1@uni-berlin.de>,
 "mr.sumo.snr" <llanelli14NOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:

> BTW using the expression 'haafu' around these parts i.e. this newsgroup,
> probably goes down about as well as a fart in a spacesuit.

Personally I don't find anything wrong with 'haafu' - after all, it's 
only a word, and certainly not meant to offend or degrade anyone.

I'm been referring to myself as "half-German" since I was a kid, and 
always assumed that "half-something" was the standard way of referring 
to someone with mixed parentage in English.

What exactly is your problem with the word, and what would you suggest 
as an alternative?

-- 
Rodney Webster
http://knot.mine.nu/