Re: World's Fish Are In Hot Water

On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:20:42 -0500, "Tim J."
<NOkpos3wtSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>...its context.

AHEM...

>We're crossing into the gray area of political correctness

Uh, no. "Political correctness" would suggest, nay, DEMAND, that the
word itself is "incorrect," such as would require the changing of photo
captions from their original "negro" to "African-American." Common
sense, being in opposition to "political correctness" would correctly
suggest that the contextual usage in the instant case would be widely
offensive to many/most. If only common sense were a lot more common...

HTH,
R
....now, if he'd posted a link to a "lookee, Ma!" picture of some bozo
holding a trout with 9 other LDR'd flies in its mouth, captioned "some
critters never learn"...
.

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