Language Police Part II books

Many of you were as offended as I was when coming across our first Language Police post.

A new story at CNN reveals more comments by "The Language Police" author Dianne Ravitch.

Most interesting is the observation that "The Old Man and the Sea" only has two words in the title that would be appropriate in text books: "and" and "the".
Old = ageist
Man = sexist
Sea = not sensitive to people who live inland and "can't grasp the concept for a large body of water."

Huh? "Can't grasp the concept for a large body of water"? This is something we want to condone? We want people to grow up not "grasping the concept of a large body of water"? About 70% of earth is covered in water...but we don't want them to "grasp the concept"?

I think we need a new continent so that the puritans (and PC maniacs) can once again cross water (can't say sea!) and get the hell out of here.

Posted by Desiree on May 28, 2003 at 12:50 PM | TrackBack


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These people are:

Multiple Choice (one or more answers maybe correct)

1)Foolish
2)Stupid
3)Idiots
4)Windbags
5)Dumb
6)Half wits
7)Dense
8)Half baked
9)Senseless
10)Pointless
11)Insane
12)Mindless
13)Silly
14)Loony
15)Wacky
16)Screwy
17)Goofy
18)Crazy
19)Ludicrous
20)Invisionaries - who see the need for progressive and inclusive change

Posted by: cjb on May 28, 2003 02:23 PM


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