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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 20th, 2023, 9:46 pm

"In 1992 my co-authors on a book waited until I was away and then secretly replaced every "he" in our text with "he/she," as if I wouldn't notice. Obviously I went ballistic and had them change it back."

It could be worse; the print editor idiot retyping the formulae..

And \epsilon, \varepsilon and \in look so alike.

Like Cassius (or was it Crassus?) it's Greek to them.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 20th, 2023, 9:55 pm

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/ ... -offensive

Willy Woker.

When will they get around to editing 1984? A trick has been missed.
High time. Ban all Dahl's works.
Let them read Dickens.
Tales of the Unexpected on ITV were mildly entertaining. In fairness, it was the only channel on after 10 o'clock.
 bit like Hitchcock 1/2 Hour, 
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 21st, 2023, 8:25 am

I'm afraid it's crossed the Channel already. A teacher friend in Germany says she has to be very careful with her 'articles.' There's some weird thing she has to say to make it clear that anything, e.g. a table, can be masculine, feminine, neuter, or any of the other 96 official genders. It's the verbal equivalent of putting an 'x' at the end of words in English: alumnus, alumna, alumnx. I don't speak German so I can't give an example.
True but it's not their own invention, they just want to be as stupid as the English, it's normal with the Germans.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 21st, 2023, 11:39 am

I'm afraid it's crossed the Channel already. A teacher friend in Germany says she has to be very careful with her 'articles.' There's some weird thing she has to say to make it clear that anything, e.g. a table, can be masculine, feminine, neuter, or any of the other 96 official genders. It's the verbal equivalent of putting an 'x' at the end of words in English: alumnus, alumna, alumnx. I don't speak German so I can't give an example.
Ze Woman, ze Wurst, ze Bier - female, male, neutral. Problem solved.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 21st, 2023, 12:27 pm

Sorry but ze woman (das Weib) is neutral. Oops.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 22nd, 2023, 9:35 pm

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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 23rd, 2023, 4:47 am

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Well, doh! Or you could say for Trump, but that will rile Gamal.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 23rd, 2023, 7:45 am

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I agree in principle. Brexit has strengthened Germany and France in the EU and they are pro-Putin.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

February 23rd, 2023, 8:16 pm

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I agree in principle. Brexit has strengthened Germany and France in the EU and they are pro-Putin.
And pan-European royals' inbreeding down all the years certainly doesn't make it easier. And a direct operator line to Jesus.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

March 10th, 2023, 7:39 am

The Goosebumps children’s books have now been cleansed. No more references to fat people, for example!

Mr Bumble, they’re coming for you!
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

March 10th, 2023, 9:13 am

Lots of work to do ,, bring back Baroness Castle of Blackburn.
The Ballad of Persse O'Reilly
(James Joyce)

1.  Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty
    How he fell with a roll and a rumble
    And curled up like Lord Olofa Crumple
    By the butt of the Magazine Wall

    (CHORUS) Of the Magazine Wall/Hump, helmet and all?

2.  He was one time our King of the Castle
    Now he's kicked about like a rotten old parsnip.
    And from Green Street he'll be sent by order of His Worship
    To the penal jail of Mountjoy

    (CHORUS) To the jail of Mountjoy!/Jail him and joy.

3.  He was fafafather of all schemes for to bother us
    Slow coaches and immaculate contraceptives for the populace,
    Mare's milk for the sick, seven dry Sundays a week,
    Openair love and religion's reform,

    (CHORUS) And religious reform/Hideous in form.


 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

March 10th, 2023, 11:38 am

"Once upon a time they lived happily ever after. The end." ?

Ed: "They" will have to go.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

March 10th, 2023, 12:12 pm

This has to go as well.  Save our children.

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo.
His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Betty Byrne lived: she sold lemon platt.
       O, the wild rose blossoms
       On the little green place.

He sang that song. That was his song.
       O, the green wothe botheth.
When you wet the bed first it is warm then it gets cold. His mother put on the oilsheet. That had the queer smell.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

March 10th, 2023, 4:29 pm

BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... lash-fears

A sixth episode has also been filmed, which is understood to be a stark look at the losses of nature in the UK and what has caused the declines. It is also understood to include some examples of rewilding, a concept that has been controversial in some rightwing circles.
 
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Re: Political Correctness is Dead! Time to say what you really think

March 10th, 2023, 6:10 pm

I do hope this story is true! But you are such a tease, Cuch, most of your stories collapse under the slightest scrutiny!