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Language Police
Biggles
<font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
in Zocalo v2.0
[url]http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110004691[/url]
Everyone repeat after me: "We're all the same."
Everyone repeat after me: "We're all the same."
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And what's wrong with cults...;)
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This murdering, by the way, would serve only the greater good of humanity.
If you are going to change the words, why even mention the song? I'd be damm pissed if someone started rewriting something I spent a great deal of effort in creating. Isn't it copyrigh infringement to defile intelectual works in this way?
I really hope I come across one of these orwellian 'goodthink' idiots in college, I won't tolerate anyone telling me how to speak or write. Language is meant to communicate ideas, not to make everyone feel nice inside, hell most of the time the point is to offend and make people react because thats sometimes the only way you can change things.
I wonder if they have removed the world "Human" becuase it contains "man" and "Homo Sapien" becuase it contains "homo" - if so, then I guess they must refer to our species as the "advanced animals" which will of course be considered derogitory to those idiots that don't belive in evolution, so that will be out too, in additon to the animal-rights activists who probably get upset that animals are not brought up to the level of humans should ban the term "animal." Plus the term "advanced" is considered derogitory to people that are "less advanced" so it must also be removed.
Now I have, under their system of removal of potentially hurtful words, caused our species and the concept of animals to be rendered non-existant :D
What idiots there do abound!
Brotherhood seems to be a bad word, why cant sisterhood be bad too??
THAT'S FINLAND I JUST DESCRIBED! :D
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Now I have, under their system of removal of potentially hurtful words, caused our species and the concept of animals to be rendered non-existant :D [/B][/QUOTE]
But to render something non-existant, requires an existance to begin with, which implies that something has either evolved, or has been created. And as both of these beliefs are potentially offensive to their opposites...... [pop]
[i](Ranger Brian has accidentally removed himself from (non)existance.) [/i]
[B]Brotherhood seems to be a bad word, why cant sisterhood be bad too?? [/B][/QUOTE]
It surely is. But then, brotherhood is the more common of the two. Unless, of course, I've just haven't seen the French Revolution's secondary slogan, [i]"libertŽ, sororitŽ, ŽgalitŽ"[/i], or that alternative version of "America, the Beautiful" that ends the first verse with [i]"And crown thy good with sisterhood/From sea to shining sea"[/i]
[B]I've got an idea....lets drop all these PC elitist morons into the middle of France...and then build a really freaking tall wall and use tactical missile strikes to take out all their planes at once. Then top it off with a dome and set off VX nerve gas to remove their stupidity from our gene pool.... [/B][/QUOTE]
umm, hello? The rather obvious problem with your plan is that we would take out all those innocent fren.......
I see. Proceed at once. :D
[B]umm, hello? The rather obvious problem with your plan is that we would take out all those innocent fren.......
I see. Proceed at once. :D [/B][/QUOTE]
:drevil:
EG: Instead of people calling them selves A man, or A women, They should be calling them sleves a Human, or person, or Indivdual;)
[B]EG: Instead of people calling them selves A man, or A women, They should be calling them sleves a Human, or person, or Indivdual;) [/B][/QUOTE]
Don't suggest it to them.
They might do just that!
[B]Don't suggest it to them.
They might do just that! [/B][/QUOTE]
Then my work is done:)
What about all the songs that would be rewritten?
"How many roads must a human walk down, before you call him a human?"
"You make me feel like a natural human."
And so on.
[B]I realy wish they would take all the gender based words out:)
EG: Instead of people calling them selves A man, or A women, They should be calling them sleves a Human, or person, or Indivdual;) [/B][/QUOTE]
That would be all well and fine if human beings were androgynous. But the fact is that humans are of two genders, and there's no point in evading that fact.
[B]It would make personal ads difficult, though. "Devorced white human seeks single asian human. Must enjoy long walks in the beach in light rain and reading children's poetry."[/B][/QUOTE]
What a horribly derogatory sentence.
"Currently not married caucasian human seeks currently not married human originally from eastern hemisphere. Must enjoy long walks on the beach in light rain and enjoy reading young human's poetry."
[B]Don't suggest it to them.
They might do just that! [/B][/QUOTE]
from your sig:
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." -Robert Heinlein
I think it fits quite well in this thread. :D
Least women have a choice of being Miss or Ms.
We have come a long way from cavemen sometimes I think too far in the way we have to present ourselves in order to be accepted in todays society between men and women. Yeah there was womens lib but its still accepted that God created Mankind and not Womankind. Thats utter tosh to me. Who knows?! :)
And this may be slightly off course here but related...... that even silly things like women having to shave their legs, why don't men? Who decided the word feminine? And why shaving legs was more so? I think there are still some tribes that think hairyness is more feminine! I mean I don't like hairy legs lol, but thats only cos I've been conformed in that way same as so many other things. So to some degree I can see some reasons why we should be the same.
:)