English Language and Politcal correctness
16 May 2002, 11:04 AM
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16 May 2002, 01:26 PM
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How many Afro Americans do you know that know that Nitty-Gritty means the grit in the bottom of the bilges in a Slave Ship or indeed how may on them give a to$$ ?
16 May 2002, 03:00 PM
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Denied in Guardian Letters today:
You say I was reproached by a Metropolitan police training officer at the Police Federation conference for using a banned phrase which - if used by officers - would, it was claimed, lead to disciplinary action (Why nitty gritty has been ruled a no-no in the police lexicon, May 15). I have checked this claim. It is untrue. There is no list of banned words. Nor can I find any evidence that the phrase has been banned or established as having racist connotations. The Metropolitan police has issued sensible advice on the way in which different ethnic groups describe themselves or prefer to be described. It offers guidance to officers on appropriate terminology, which does not include the phrase. Much more important is the understanding that officers should not use language with racial overtones that is designed to be offensive. This would rightly be a disciplinary matter.
You say I was reproached by a Metropolitan police training officer at the Police Federation conference for using a banned phrase which - if used by officers - would, it was claimed, lead to disciplinary action (Why nitty gritty has been ruled a no-no in the police lexicon, May 15). I have checked this claim. It is untrue. There is no list of banned words. Nor can I find any evidence that the phrase has been banned or established as having racist connotations. The Metropolitan police has issued sensible advice on the way in which different ethnic groups describe themselves or prefer to be described. It offers guidance to officers on appropriate terminology, which does not include the phrase. Much more important is the understanding that officers should not use language with racial overtones that is designed to be offensive. This would rightly be a disciplinary matter.
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16 May 2002, 03:05 PM
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500 years ago some of my family were attacked by a highway man, apparently "cacky horse ****e" was the term used by highway men of that era to describe cacky horse ****e that got stuck to their horses feet while they lay in wait for their victems to pass by.
please refrain from saying "cacky" from now on because it still makes me a little sad.
Tiggs
please refrain from saying "cacky" from now on because it still makes me a little sad.
Tiggs
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So my PC at home now has a dominant drive with a submissive secondary drive.
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