Politically Correct-ness

Remember when the DICTIONARY was the ONLY source of reference for the correct spelling and meaning of a given word.

171,476 words
The English Dictionary
First, let's look at how many words are in the Dictionary. The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use (and 47,156 obsolete words).

back when there was NO spell check,

and you actually had to KNOW

how to spel the word to look it up.

Remember, how thick and heavy it was when you carried it from room to room, so much so that more often then not it became a ...

door stop or foot step,

and that was before the encyclopedia,

en·cy·clo·pe·di·a

noun

a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.

Remember, that there were so many, that you had to know the alphabet to use them and that they came in their own bookcase that actually ...

took up the entire room,

and LONG before there even was

an internet or

and THEN along came ...

Politically Correct-ness

so NOW that we must not OFFEND

any one we have had to

RE - WRITE a new PC VERSION

The term political correctness (adjectivally: politically correct; commonly abbreviated PC) is used to describe language, policies, or measures that are intended to avoid offense or disadvantage to members of particular groups in society.

That attitude manifests itself in places like The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s “Inclusive Excellence Center,” launched in 2012, which cautions you to think twice about all the damage you do when you say the word “Nazi” (unless you’re talking about actual Nazis; saying “Soup Nazi” means you’re minimizing the Holocaust), “illegal alien” or “third world.” Also, don’t say “thug” because you might hurt their feelings, not to mention “lame,” “man up” or “are you deaf?”

Hey, some people actually are deaf, don’t be blind to their pain. Also, “blind spot” and “blind alley” increasingly get labeled “ableist.”

PC police won’t let us use these words anymore.

The University of Michigan spent $16,000 in 2015 advising students not to say “I want to die” because it’s offensive to the suicidal, nor “That test raped me” because some people actually have been raped, although probably not by calculus exams. At Minnesota’s Macalester College, posters and social media warned in 2014 against using the words “crazy,” “psycho,” “schizo” and “derp.” Which is nuts.On a crowded elevator in San Francisco in April, Richard Ned Lebow was asked what floor he wanted. The 76-year-old professor from Kings College London replied: “Ladies’ lingerie.”

A List of Words That Will Soon Be Politically Incorrect

OK ... Okay, I get it already ...

Words that start life as harmless adjectives – “coloured”, “queer”, “retarded” – have been co-opted by bastards (there's another) and are eventually deemed insulting, upsetting, unacceptable and finally politically incorrect.