Hahaha, Political correctness gone wild

[VipertheSniper]

And I'm glad it is like that, yesterday I browsed the comments to a newspaper article, about the Microsoft Ad disaster in Poland, from a newspaper that is pretty far to the left, and the comments were full of PC sh*t.

[jumpy]

Dozens of quangos and taxpayer-funded organisations have ordered a purge of common words and phrases so as not to cause offence.

Shock horror! useless waste of time committee wastes time and taxpayers money to come up with new and ever more soulless ways to make the world a colour somewhere between nondescript grey and beige.

These people need a collective term; I will tender 'Golgafrinchians'.
All in favour say 'Aye'.

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by jumpy

These people need a collective term; I will tender 'Golgafrinchians'.
All in favour say 'Aye'.

Aye! Let's put them all in a shuttle and set it towards the Sun. Then maybe reason might return to this world. Christ, these words are a part of the English culture, you can't just decide to remove them by an order. That's totalitarianism, not democracy. They just make me sick.

Truly, why don't we stop communicating for a while. It might put the chaps out of work and we'll have some peace afterwards.

[Skybird]

Controlling language means controlling people's thinking. See Orwell's 1984.

[Respenus]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Controlling language means controlling people's thinking. See Orwell's 1984.

Ah, yes. I knew I found the whole idea very familiar and threatening when I read the article. Must be time I re-read the book.

[Tchocky]

Being careful with the language you use is not wrong.

Legislating language is legally and morally questionable, and half-baked non-ideas such as in the article here are ridiculous.

I imagine that the reason such guidelines were given out is more to avoid spurious litigation than avoid causing offense.