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To: Tax-chick

Please add me to this ping list.

My pet peeve is the Politically Correct twisting of our language. My college professor actually told me that it was incorrect to use the default "he" which was proper english for generations before he started teaching. That is part of the origin of using "their" and "he/she" and "s/he" because there isn't a good generic first person singular asexual pronoun in the english language.

Another pet peeve is misspellings on signs. Usually a sign or banner or headline has only a few words in it. If the owner of the business can't get those few words correct, how careful are they going to be with other details? At least TV commercials are relatively free from misspellings.


179 posted on 01/18/2005 4:40:26 PM PST by Kevin OMalley (No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
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To: Kevin OMalley

You're added. I've had about two Typso pings a week recently. People just aren't being that funny!

Regarding the PC nuisance, I'm very annoyed that hymns have been rewritten to avoid using "man" as a general term for people, and to avoid using "He" as a pronoun for God. I make it a point to sing the politically incorrect words as loudly as possible (and I can lead a whole congregation flat from the back row :-).


180 posted on 01/18/2005 6:04:50 PM PST by Tax-chick ( The old woman who lives in the 15-passenger van.)
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