| wangfoo said: Chink is a shortening of Chinese and is derived most likely fron Qing or China. |
I'm sorry, I may have explained a little poorly. I did do a little looking up before posting and found,
"A number of dictionaries have provided different suggestions as to the origin of chink. Some of these suggestions are that it originated from the Chinese courtesy, ching-ching, that it evolved from the word "China", or that it was an alteration of 'Qing', as in the Qing Dynasty. A final explanation posits that the word evolved from the other meaning of chink, which is a small crevice, being a simile for small or slanted eyes."
From Chinese, it is modifying and adding the "k"
"ching-ching" being changed to it would seem very obviously to be a modification making fun of them.
Evolved from China is a modification that replaces.
Alteration from Qing is a modification that is even adding making it longer.
"Japanese" to "Jap" is what I'm considering an abbreviation and not so much a modification in the sense that it only removed what was there. It did not replace it with something else or add something, so it seems more like a logical way to abbreviate it especially if you don't know that it was used in a derogatory manner before.
I apologize if the word offends you, but what I meant to be getting across is that it does seem like it should be a logical abbreviation.
