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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 04:02 PM
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The computer term "master/slave," which was banned as racially offensive by a Los Angeles County purchasing department, was named the most politically incorrect term of the year on Thursday.

Among other terms on the top 10 list of politically charged words and phrases, issued by the word usage group Global Language Monitor, were "non-same sex marriage" to describe heterosexual unions, "waitron" for waiter or waitress and "higher being" for God, a term some people found too religious.

"We found 'master/slave' to be the most egregious example of political correctness in 2004," said Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor.

"This is but one more example of the insertion of politics into every facet of modern life, down to the level of the control processes of computer technology."

http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/story.jsp?&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20041203%2F0914464660.htm&sc=reodd
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Champ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 04:03 PM
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1. Dupe
I got to it a little early before you did ;)
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 04:03 PM
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2. I hate being the dupe.
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-03-04 04:06 PM
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3. The Politically Correct 12 Days of Christmas
or some of them...off a website I posted a few mins ago>>>

On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival,
my potential-acquaintance-abuse-survivor gave to me:
Twelve males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming;
Eleven pipers piping (plus the 18-member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union, as called for in their union contract, even though they will not be asked to play a note...);
Ten melanin-deprived testosterone-poisoned scions of the patriarchal
ruling-class system leaping;
Nine persons engaged in rhythmic self-expression;
Eight economically disadvantaged but still virginal gyno-Americans
stealing milk products from enslaved bovine-Americans;
Seven endangered swans swimming on federally protected wetlands;
Six enslaved fowl-Americans producing stolen nonhuman animal products; Five golden symbols of culturally sanctioned enforced domestic
incarceration;
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