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Originally Posted by garinda
Brit, Frenchie, Aussie.
All shortened forms of the full name, and not deemed offensive.
Perhaps you can also be accused of racism if you say Czech, rather than some Czechosovak?
All a bit sad really.
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Wonder if the shading has anything to do with it? It seem that there is a small bunch of narrow minded blinkered lackies attached to a quango that get paid a lot of money to spout of dung. It all depends on how people take it and at the moment they dont get a say. All it does is increase hostility to those who are supposed to be offended because some jobsworth thinks they are offended. At this rate they will insist on a complete restucturing of the English language so that anything that might be deemed offence or be percived as offensive by one person is removed and deemed illegal to use. Towns will be renamed along with streets roads avenues lanes etc.
There is way to much interferance from dogooders in our lives as it is without this kind of mindless nonsense. We are smart enough (though some think otherwise) to know when a remark will cause offence to another. We have let it go on so long that now we are powerless to stop the interference in our lives and thinking that we just have to accept it. Common sense has now been confined to history and we can do nothing to be allowed to use it again. Soon the courts will be full of people being tried for so called racial remark injury. It has now reached the stage were this PC jugernaught cannot be stopped or even slowed down and it is going to run us over without stopping.