Turtle Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 Whether tried-and-true or your own creation, it's time to Lingo! Tried-n-true example:Out: garbage manIn: sanitation engineer My own creation example:Out: loserIn: slow winner :shrug: :hihi: Quote
Janus Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 My own creation example:Out: loserIn: slow winner or how about: "Victory Challenged" A couple of my own: Out: JanitorIn: Soil Relocation Specialist Out: Dairy farmerIn: Bovine Lactation Facilitator Out: Bank TellerIn: Financial Redistribution Technician Turtle 1 Quote
Mercedes Benzene Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 Out: Lunch LadyIn: School Nutritional Expert Quote
infamous Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 Out: Liberal In: Secular Progressive Quote
Jay-qu Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 What really interests me with PC language is how it backfires in some cases. An example is with some blind, which where started to be refered to as 'visually challenged'. Since this means that we are going out of our way to cut around an issue that we think may be insulting to them if addressed in such a direct way, they found it insulting. Because it would mean we think they have something to be ashamed of that we are helping them hide, but really they arent ashamed at all.. :shrug: Quote
Turtle Posted October 12, 2006 Author Report Posted October 12, 2006 Out: tortureIn: necessary measures :doh: Chacmool 1 Quote
Qfwfq Posted October 12, 2006 Report Posted October 12, 2006 What really interests me with PC language is how it backfires in some cases. An example is with some blind, which where started to be refered to as 'visually challenged'. Since this means that we are going out of our way to cut around an issue that we think may be insulting to them if addressed in such a direct way, they found it insulting. Because it would mean we think they have something to be ashamed of that we are helping them hide, but really they arent ashamed at all.Actually, it is due to a term, which is not insulting, coming to be used as an insult, or even in the context of an insult. "Are you blind?" or "blind idiot" etc. Another example is the chain cripple -> handicapped -> disabled... over here some of them have been objecting to the last and calling themselves "differently able". :doh: School children are specialists at using terms as an insult and it then spreads, especially when they have grown up on the use of a term. Whatever elaborate and convoluted PC expression you can concoct, it will eventually be defeated by misuse. Simple and direct, but with unpleasance avoided, is the way to go. The term officially used for blind over here has long been "non-seeing". Quite schoolkid-proof, along with the above "differently able". OTOH, some things such as garbage are intrinsically unpleasant. Over here the term for "garbage man" came to be "ecological operator". Somewhat overblown, but now garbage collection is just part of a broader municipal service: environmental hygiene. Even long before all this talk of PC, there were denominations such as "Municipal Agency of Urban Cleanliness and Hygiene" around here. A few years ago, for political reasons (but not for the sake of PC) in my current hometown, it became the "environment sector" of one big municipal services company. Quote
Turtle Posted October 12, 2006 Author Report Posted October 12, 2006 Out: fundamentalist propagandaIn: creationism Quote
Boerseun Posted October 13, 2006 Report Posted October 13, 2006 Out: MaidIn: Domestic Engineer! Quote
Boerseun Posted October 13, 2006 Report Posted October 13, 2006 Out: Drunk as ****In: Excretally inebriated! Turtle 1 Quote
Boerseun Posted November 12, 2007 Report Posted November 12, 2007 Out: Bored stiffIn: Rigidly non-entertained Quote
Pyrotex Posted November 12, 2007 Report Posted November 12, 2007 ...Another example is the chain cripple -> handicapped -> disabled... over here some of them have been objecting to the last and calling themselves "differently able". :)...I see that Italy is about a decade behind trends in the US. (which is not necessarily a bad thing :) ). Here, the chain went cripple -> handicapped -> disabled -> differently abled -> physically challenged... and I think there are now even more PC synonyms. I grew up using the word "handicapped" and I have always preferred that. I am about the most "able" cripple you may ever meet, so I never liked the word disabled. And the "differently..." and "...challenged" and such all struck me as ludicrous attempts to promote denial. Dealing with a handicap (I had polio at the age of 5) starts by accepting it on its own terms, and then going on from there. If someone tries to say I'm differently challenged or whatever, I usually let them know (with a smile), "it's okay, lady, I know I'm handicapped. I have a mirror at home." :) :) :) :) OUT: WheelchairPC: Personal Anti-Challenge Enablement Vehicle :warped: Quote
Pyrotex Posted November 12, 2007 Report Posted November 12, 2007 OUT: Kriminal99PC: Free Will Challenged Quote
Pyrotex Posted November 13, 2007 Report Posted November 13, 2007 OUT: Stupid as a rockPC: Taken for granite Quote
Turtle Posted November 14, 2007 Author Report Posted November 14, 2007 ***** - Outthe 'b' word that rhymes with 'witch' - In :rolleyes::doh::evil: Quote
Boerseun Posted November 14, 2007 Report Posted November 14, 2007 Out: Bright as a box of rocksIn: Intelligence of a lithic nature Quote
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