And I guess Betty Crocker is going have to change their packaging...
Posted on 08/28/2009 10:25:13 PM PDT by Wardenclyffe
As guardians of the English language, usually garrulous tongued UK residents are finding themselves at a loss for words.
Many of their favourite phrases have been banned.
Dozens of taxpayer-funded organizations in the UK are drawing black lines through dozens of common words and phrases they’ve decided are offensive.
You won’t find any "gentleman’s agreements" being made in the halls of the National Gallery in London. Such bonds are now "unwritten agreements."
No place is safe from being suspect – even the "master bedroom" is a problem for uber-sensitive officials at Newcastle University.
But on this side of the Atlantic, one curious word seems to be under attack.
Not that’s it’s offensive. But because it makes people — especially women — feel icky.
Entire websites now revolve around a hatred of "moist."
There are a dozen Facebook groups calling for an end of the word, with ‘I HATE the word MOIST!" boasting 822 decidedly dry members.
University of Pennsylvania linguist Mark Liberman has traced the evolving resentment over the adjective. He’s found humans carry around a propensity for "word aversion." Among those that give us the creeps, are “hardscrabble,” “pugilist,” “squall” and “giggle.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cnews.canoe.ca ...
And I guess Betty Crocker is going have to change their packaging...
Dammed scoldroons, squallop the lot of them and plish the dregs, flush to froth.
Kentucky phoebes?
“Keep your government out of my Lexicon,” Ping!
Is anyone else sick of progressives editing everyone’s thoughts and word choices!
Careful all. The thought and expression police are listening.
Spectre-7 said:
Adding onto the above bizarreness, a significant number of women claim an aversion to moist, yet moisture and moisturize remain perfectly acceptable judging by the advertising for beauty products. I remain perplexed.
It’s kind of a bicycle-seat thing, moist is sticky and stinky and attracts flies and stuff and if you park it in the sun it burns your buns.
I dislike "Maoist."
Bum - Replaced by Homeless Person
Criminal - Replaced by behaviorally challenged
Factory - Replaced by Plant
Failure - Replaced by deferred success
Founding Fathers - Replaced by The Founders.
Home-ec (Home Economics) - Replaced by Family and Consumer Sciences
Illegal Aliens – Replaced by Undocumented Immigrants
Jungle - Replaced by Rainforest
Lumberjack - Replaced by Murderer
Natural Disaster - replaced by Unnatural Event caused by man's destruction of the environment.
Psycho - Replaced by Pathologically High-Spirited
Swamp - Replaced by Wetland
“Moist” is a very good descriptive word. Such as “It was hot,and moist”
LOL - Good one!
Saw the article and first thing that went through my head was this scene from “Dead Like Me”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYH52hRbwJg
You know what all this moisture leads to don’t you? Chafing.
Bwaaaaahahahahahahahahahaaa!
ROFLMAO! (No pun intended!)
What the heck is with people who try to control words? Seriously... And, how come all the hippies who claimed to be raising children who embraced freedom have instead raised an entire generation of control-freaks???
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