PC Speech of the Year Awards

[SouthernN'Proud]

from tonguetied.us

The U.S. Global Language Monitor's list of the most politically correct language of the year is out, and the BBC's use of the phrase "misguided criminals" to refer to the July terrorists wins the rasberry of the year.

Among the other examples of PC-speak cited by the group are replacing the term "brainstorming" with "thought shower" in order to avoid offending people with brain disorders and "deferred success" to replace "failure" to avoid making students feel bad about themselves.

Also on the list (most will be familiar to regular readers): "womyn" for women in order to distance the word from men, replacing "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" with "God Rest Ye Merry Persons" and Australia's failed attempt to ban use the word "mate" to address members of parliament.

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Mortar...cinder blocks...generator...'lectrical wire...duct tape...yep, ready to keep building.

 

[Gonz]

deferred success

:roflmaopmp:

 

[Inkara1]

Don't forget the rebar. Earthquakes might be rare in your neck of the woods but they can happen and I'd hate for your impenetrable fortress to be toppled by a little earthquake.

 

[Winky]

2.Intrinsic Aptitude (or lack thereof) was a suggestion by Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, on why women might be underrepresented in engineering and science. He was nearly fired for his speculation.

4. Scum or "la racaille" for French citizens of Moslem and North African descent inhabiting the projects ringing French Cities. France's Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, used this most Politically inCorrect (and reprehensible) label to describe the young rioters (and by extension all the inhabitants of the Cites).

5. Out of the Mainstream when used to describe the ideology of any political opponent: At one time slavery was in the mainstream, thinking the sun orbited the earth was in the mainstream, having your blood sucked out by leeches was in the mainstream. What's so great about being in the mainstream?