Comments on: Words Hurt: The PC Police vs. Your Vocabulary

By: offendedblogger

offendedblogger — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 05:51:22 +0000

Well, shouldn’t Whitewash, Brown-nosing and Yellow-belly be on the list??

By: John Foland

John Foland — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:34:27 +0000

Shame on the army and any entity that bans particular words simply because they may be unfamiliar and therefore “ungood” to a dumbed-down ignorant mob. This is painful.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 13:18:04 +0000

I’m still angry that we can’t go out and have a ‘gay old time’ without someone giggling.

By: Older and Wiser

Older and Wiser — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:30:57 +0000

Another example of the infantilization of adulthood that has occurred during the reign of the “Big-Baby” Boomers. People hear a word, and instead of maturely finding out whether the word was intended to be offensive, they jump immediately into tantrum mode.

No wonder they want a nanny state. They’ve become so immature, they are in need of an ever-present baby-sitter to protect them from themselves.

By: Xanthippe

Xanthippe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:33:11 +0000

This list is unbelievable. I had no idea some of these words hurt.

“Lackey”?

By: Amphipolis

Amphipolis — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:51:25 +0000

I object to being called caucasian. I am not from the Caucasus region between the Black and Caspian seas.

By: Full Metal Cynic

Full Metal Cynic — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:59:17 +0000

I’ve been hearing about this list of verboten words on talk radio for a couple of weeks now. In fact, there are a lot of such lists, some by corporations and even churches. I just hope to God I’m not going to have to eventually do that Fahrenheit 451 thing–start memorizing books (especially my Oxford English Dictionary).

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:46:45 +0000

I heard someone get upset and claim that the word Oriental was racist when referring to one’s origins – as from the Orient. When do words become offensive? When one person finds it so, even if it’s because of over sensitivity to a word they really don’t understand? Why should we allow a term that has no ill intent become so offensive? Just wondering.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:06:48 +0000

Regarding “niggardly,” the complaints about that word only demonstrate what I sometimes like to call the new illiteracy. I work at a university, and one time I was at a faculty senate meeting when someone used the word properly. One of the faculty members sitting nearby me almost went ballistic, and I thought, how sad, this is a university and many members of the faculty don’t have a clue what the word means or what its origins are.

By: gringo

gringo — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:41:24 +0000

The best words to describe all this is are: “Taboo” and “blasphemy”.