Political Correctness Gone MadFreddy Woo writes: "I once worked on an animation to help highlight the issues homeless people face in winter. The client was happy with the work, then a note came back that the ethnic mix of the characters were wrong. These were cartoon characters. They weren't meant to be ethnically anything, but we were forced to make one of them brown, at the cost of about 10k to the charity. This is how your donations are spent. Wisely as you can see."
How has PC affected you? (Please add your own tales - not five-year-old news stories cut-and-pasted from other websites)
(, Thu 22 Nov 2007, 10:20)
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for you poor monolingualistsI did some work for the Equal Opportunities Commission (now part of the Equality and Human Rights Commission) earlier this year, in the Cardiff office. Despite only being a lowly part-time temp, I was invited to take part in an afternoon's race awareness training. Now, I'm really not one of these "it's political correctness gone mad" people, and the training was really interesting, but I'm going to ask you to hazard a guess at how many ethnic minority members of staff this office of about 20 people had...
Got it in one. So the elephant in the room that day was that the only non-white person present was, erm, the trainer; mildly galling, especially in such a diverse city as ours.
Mind you, I'm not complaining about their hypocritical employment practices, it got me a job - I only got work there because my mum knows the boss.
*shuffles feet*
Sweet Dreams,
(, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 13:25, 7 replies)
Pedantry 101There's not actually a *good* reason for me to tell you that the a person who is monolingual is infact a "monoglot" or that the word "Monolingualist" doesn't exist... But as I have my pedantic hat on today, sheer pedantry gives me reason enough..
I however am a polyglot.. so... sug mon pimmel.
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:03,
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yesI am well aware of that, being a confirmed pedant/language Nazi myself. However, this is b3ta, and "monolingualist" sounds vaguely grubby, I hope you'll agree.
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;o)When pedantry is in play, there's no space for Humour ;o)
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Aye, but "glot" has something gutteral to it that makes me think of going down on the nearest lass...
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:18,
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yeahquite onomatopoeic, isn't it?
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Could be if...... you manage to make your tounging actually *make* a "glot" noise... though there's many a cunninglinguist who'd produce other noises...
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:38,
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^^^Which presumably would make one a polyglot.
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:40,
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^^^^Aye... assuming one used a repetitive tongue motion ... maybe like "triple-toungeing" as used by brass players workd wide... ;o)
Having eaten plenty of mimsies, (and able to use 4 languages proficiently) I think I can claim I'm a two-fold polyglot...
Count the puns.... *slaps himself*
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Humpty Dumpty was Pushed Is unaware of having any limits., Tue 27 Nov 2007, 14:49,
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