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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Is it Naivete, Stupidity or Homophobia? (Re: Recent Peeve
- Message-ID: <By6Kot.5ps@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:00:29 GMT
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- Quoting charless@sco.COM (Charlie Stross) in article <1992Nov23.104800.12663@sco.com>:
-
- If you're going to take the piss out of that great paper tiger PC, at
- leasst get it right. PC and prudery aren't the same thing.
-
- >"FUCK" printf("[FORNICATE]");
- Actually, "fuck" is most often used...
-
- >"PECKER" printf("[PHALLUS]");
- Try "tool of the patriachy".
-
- >"WHORE" printf("[PROSTITUTE]");
- "Sex worker". Actually this is quite a good term since it's close to one
- prostitutes have always used about themselves anyway. "Carla, she's one
- of my friends who works."
-
- >"cripple" printf("physically handicapped");
- "Handicapped" has been out for at least five years; "disabled" was the
- PC word 'till "challenged" caught hold. Try "physically disabled
- person".
-
- >"crazy" printf("emotionally handicapped");
- More usually "emotionally ill"
-
- >"deaf" printf("hearing impaired");
- Different; some hearing impaired people can hear a bit. More usually
- "deaf and hearing impaired people" (remember, the longer it is, the
- better.)
-
- >"blind" printf("optically challenged");
- "partially sighted"
-
- >"bums" printf("the homeless");
- *NEVER* "the" anything. The phrase "the homeless" will have PC people
- looking daggers at you. It's got to be "homeless people."
-
- >"slaughter" printf("put away");
- Depends who's doing the killing; I've always thought of "put away" as a
- euphemism for the would-be Rambos of this world.
-
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