<p>Haha. I guess everytime someone calls you a Hispanic-American, you can call them American-American, or Indian-American. Earth-American sounds great. North American American is more correct.</p>
<p>guido- A sad pathetic excuse for a male; not necessarily of Italian descent, but most likely; usually native to the New York.</p>
<p>Watch this: [YouTube</a> - The Italian Man Who went to Malta.](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1TnzCiUSI0)</p>
<p>^ oh ho ho that’d been on my aim status for long.</p>
<p>OH. I KNOW THE FORMAL TERM FOR THIS.</p>
<p>doublespeak?</p>
<p>Parseltongue.</p>
<p>In HK newspapers, prostitutes are called “sex workers”. Does that happen anywhere else? (I mean, it’s not like they’re saying “whore”. “Prostitute” is perfectly fine. Bleh.)</p>
<p>It is sex workers because they are ‘sex’ ‘workers’ in Chinese terms. If you call them prostitutes, it would be a derogative term since the first term is negative.</p>
<p>LOL @ sex workers. What is the PC term for a pimp then?</p>
<p>Also, Mentally challenged is to ■■■■■■■■ as Visually Impaired is to Blind</p>
<p>^LOL. I enjoy xkcd as well. But you might get a point from mods for links. I got one once and I still don’t know what to do with it.</p>
<p>MrP, it doesn’t matter. The Chinese news media can say what they like, but the English media should use English terms without making up these stupid pseudo-PC phrases.</p>
<p>The English and Chinese media in Hong Kong are both the same. Have you not noticed the significance of the ‘China’ in ‘South China Morning Post’?</p>
<p>I stopped liking the term African American after my friend accidentally said “South African African Americans” instead of South African Blacks.</p>
<p>Well I think euphemisms are there to be polite.
Ya know?
:P</p>
<p>My personal pet peeve - “differently abled”
I also can’t stand misuse of the word special, as is “special education” or “special needs”</p>
<p>Special- definition- distinguished by some unusual quality; being other than the usual; designed for a particular purpose or occasion</p>
<p>Special education and special needs are just that- they are distinguished by unusual qualities, they are different than usual, and they are designed for a particular purpose. No misuse in any way shape or form.</p>