What do we do about "spade" and "hoe"?
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:49 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.
> >
>
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