Geeze, at this rate, being Political Correct will one day be Political Incorrect.
On Mar 16, 2:49 pm, Philobealo <[email protected]> wrote: > Comrades, revise your Newspeak dictionaries at once: > > The European Parliament has banned the terms 'Miss' and 'Mrs' in case > they offend female MEPs. > The politically correct rules also mean a ban on Continental titles, > such as Madame and Mademoiselle, Frau and Fraulein and Senora and > Senorita. > Guidance issued in a new 'Gender-Neutral Language' pamphlet instead > orders politicians to address female members by their full name only. > Officials have also ordered that 'sportsmen' be called 'athletes', > 'statesmen' be referred to as 'political leaders' and even that > 'synthetic' or 'artificial' be used instead of 'man-made'. > The guidance lists banned terms for describing professions, including > fireman, air hostess, headmaster, policeman, salesman, manageress, > cinema usherette and male nurse. > To show that the EP isn't quite totalitarian, the terms "midwife," > "waiter," and "waitress" will continue to be permitted for the time > being. > > Think of the trees that will be saved as our dictionaries become ever > slimmer with each word that is erased from the language in the name of > political correctness. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
