Gone the way of the Master Bedroom.
And “human,” “permanent,” immanent,””manage,” “manicure,” “Manatee,” “manifold,” “manse,” “mansion” . . .
I’m too old to learn to speak PC English.
Why is penmanship on that list? shouldn’t that word be dropped completely? No one writes anymore. They tweet.
Old fashion Mailman is now “person person”, can’t say mail ... to close to male, can’t say man in describing the delivery person ... so ... the person that delivers my postage is a “person person”.
oh, the important issues....
I’m new, hi. This is rediculous of PC nonsence.
Penmanship and handwriting are not one in the same. Once can do handwriting without demonstrating penmanship.
Penmanship: The art or practice of writing with the pen; quality or style of handwriting.
Handwriting: writing done by hand; something written by hand.
Big difference
Problems....what to call a student in his/her third year as a freshman??? Can’t call them a “first year student” and “Humanity” as anyone can plainly see...has the word “man” smack dab in the middle of it!
hmmm, I recall my penMANship improved my freshMAN year even while dreaming of being a fisherMAN. Alas, I am writing this from my MASTER bedroom.
Freakin morons. May they all be laughed at for focusing on the inane and stupid things that matter not. I know I am not alone in choking on this never ending stream of pc baby talk.
MANuals will now be beyotchuals!
Goods won’t be MANufactured anymore.
Words that start with ‘MAN’.
http://www.scrabblefinder.com/starts-with/man/
Can't do this. It would be Numerism and Limbism, respectively.
In addition: Human will now be Hu-person, mankind will become person-kind but Mandrake the Magigician says he’s not going along with the program.
The important thing is that people ignore those guidelines and continue writing and speaking in normal English. Use the mental hangups of the politically correct to punish them at every opportunity.
That’s all some very unmanly doings.
Will history become thestory?
I jokingly tell my kids that it is not fair that there is a therMOMeter to take their temperature, but not a therPOPeter. Good thing the Washington legislature didn’t think of this, or there soon would be a therPOPeter.
Don’t they have any sane, patriotic Americans in the Washington State government anymore? I know that Seattle is fucked up beyond belief (been there) and that their Senators are crooks and liars, but ....
Oh well. Somebody is having to tell Bird Watchers that the Kingfisher is no more. It might be a QueenFisher or a ThingFisher, or just a Fisher bird.
Guess you can’t blow someone to Kingdom Come any more. Maybe it will be “Thingdom Come”.
How about “Long Live the King”? Nope.
How about “Long Live the Queen” - Yep, only now it’s “Long Live Barney Frank”
Or, “Long Live the Royal Thingy”.
Someone tell Rod Serling that he will have to change the title of one of the scariest “Twilight Zone” stories from “To Serve Man” to “To Serve People”.
{Yes I know he died but remember, you have now entered the “Twilight Zone so we can call him at 1-800-Heaven}
Hey, we’ve got to throw out “Marksmanship”. What do we call it now, Shootership?
I guess that “Mennonites” are now to be called “Personnites”. Yes, I belong to the “Personnite Central Church” or whatever. Has a ring about it. So does my bathtub.
Mennon aftershave now must be “Personnon” aftershave.
“The Three Gentlemen of Verona” will become “The Three Males of Verona”.
And the list goes on, and the list goes on. (The weather today will be Sonny and Cher). Sorry, just couldn’t resist.
NUTS!
Oops, I guess I can’t say that word, either......
They screw horses in Washington State, don’t they?