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Language police bar 'old,' 'blind'
Reuters ^ | Wednesday, May 28, 2003

Posted on 05/28/2003 9:54:28 AM PDT by presidio9

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:36 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Oh heck: Hell hath no place in American primary and high school textbooks.

But then again you can't find anyone riding on a yacht or playing polo in the pages of an American textbook either. The texts also can't say someone has a boyish figure, or is a busboy, or is blind, or suffers a birth defect, or is a biddy, or the best man for the job, a babe, a bookworm, or even a barbarian.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: dianneravitch; languagepolice; newspeak; orwell; pc; textbooks
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1 posted on 05/28/2003 9:54:28 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
I am the BARBARIAN BOOKWORM!!! AHAHAH!! (Pirate Laugh)
2 posted on 05/28/2003 9:56:19 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (It's not nice to fool Mr. Rumsfeld!)
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To: presidio9
This is doubleplus nongood.
3 posted on 05/28/2003 9:59:07 AM PDT by Ramius
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To: Frank_Discussion
Inspector Clouseau to person wearing dark glasses - "What are you blind?"

Blind person - "Yes"

Inspector Clouseau - "Oh"

4 posted on 05/28/2003 9:59:40 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Frank_Discussion
Damn! This old white male who eats red meat recently lost an eye, and now I am being told I can't be called blind in one eye. There is another word for PC and it is poppycock.
5 posted on 05/28/2003 9:59:52 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: presidio9

Buy it.

6 posted on 05/28/2003 10:01:14 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: presidio9; Gophack
"Gosh Dan, Tell us again why you spend so much money sending your kids to a private Christian school...."
7 posted on 05/28/2003 10:01:29 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (Fighting for Freedom and Having Fun)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Presidio9 once had a college paper handed back to him with an "F" on it. Halfway down the first page the word "freshmen" was circled. In the margin, the words "first year students" was written in red ink.
8 posted on 05/28/2003 10:04:57 AM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
Language police bar 'old,' 'blind'

This is not only getting old and blind, but deaf dumb and crippled too!

Gheeeeeez!!

9 posted on 05/28/2003 10:05:05 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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To: presidio9
Newspeak doubleplus ungood.
10 posted on 05/28/2003 10:06:46 AM PDT by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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To: billhilly
There is another word for PC and it is poppycock.

Having one eye is now called "poppycock"?
I didn't know that.

In Spanish there is a word for it, tuerto; I always felt bad that in English we had no single-word equivalent.
Poppycock it is then...

11 posted on 05/28/2003 10:07:21 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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To: Liberal Classic
From 1984:

We're getting the language into its final shape -- the shape it's going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we've finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We're destroying words -- scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We're cutting the language down to the bone.

12 posted on 05/28/2003 10:10:04 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Paranoia is when you realize that tin foil hats just focus the mind control beams.)
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To: presidio9
"GET OUT OF THE PASSING LANE YOU VISUALLY-IMPAIRED, GOLDEN-YEARED BINGO-JUNKIE!" does have a satisfying ring to it.
13 posted on 05/28/2003 10:11:00 AM PDT by SquirrelKing ("Life is too important to be taken seriously" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: presidio9
anti-PC SPOTREP
14 posted on 05/28/2003 10:13:14 AM PDT by LiteKeeper
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Nor is the government the only source of constraint or censorship in the watch-what-you-say business. Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, recently banned racy men's magazines from its shelves although it continues to sell sexy underwear.

I know I'm in for a hot night when Honey-bunch wears her Walmart bloomers.

Don't come a-knockin' if the trailer's rockin'!

15 posted on 05/28/2003 10:13:32 AM PDT by TontoKowalski
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To: presidio9
While writing my Master's Thesis, one professor rejected a term paper due to the use of the word "mankind." We argued it out, and I won. But that was only because she liked the paper, and liked me. Such crap!
16 posted on 05/28/2003 10:13:48 AM PDT by EggsAckley ( Midnight at the Oasis)
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To: Publius6961
You should read more carefully in order to avoid embarassment.
Political correctness (pc) was the theme of the article. That is what I made reference to.
17 posted on 05/28/2003 10:14:36 AM PDT by billhilly
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To: presidio9
This spring, I lost ten points on a paper in Spanish class for using "Americans." It was crossed out and "U.S. citizens" was written instead.
18 posted on 05/28/2003 10:14:40 AM PDT by profmike23 (Go Spurs Go!)
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To: presidio9
My brother came up with the following PC term:

"Self-appointed Population Control Specialist."

You know, like O.J. Simpson or Ted Bundy.
19 posted on 05/28/2003 10:16:48 AM PDT by Our man in washington
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To: KarlInOhio
``Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.''
20 posted on 05/28/2003 10:19:11 AM PDT by Liberal Classic (Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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