Originally posted by Loaf Warden:
Political correctness. I'm sick of correct, accurate, genuinely descriptive terms being thrown out the window in favor of meaningless garbage that succeeds at being unoffensive for, like, twelve minutes, before someone starts throwing the new P.C. terms around as insults. There's nothing inherent in the old words that makes them insulting, it's just the fact that people use them as insults toward people they do not properly refer to. But the same thing happens with the 'newspeak' versions, and we are forced to degrade to yet a lower level of nonsensical verbal mush. As a lover of language, it pains me greatly to watch this trend happening.[/B]
