CosmoKramer
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Is this another example of extreme political correctness?
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Extreme political correctness??? 17
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sleipnir214]
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The American Association of Nuns doesn't like the line "Get thee to a nunnery"
It should be noted that in Shakespeare's time, "nunnery" was not taken to mean "convent" by the audience. It was a slang term for, ahh, shall we say, "a house of ill repute".
Was that line offensive to the madams of the time?
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Now, I am not, by any means, a racist in any way, shape, or form. And I have to wonder what the motivation of someone who calls me, or someone holding my particular viewpoint, on an issue, a racist (either directly or by implication).
My question is, does this person who complained initially about the master/slave labels, have genuine concerns, or is he just grandstanding in order to make him feel like he accomplished something good?
I will close by offering some sage words of advice from the late Ann Landers:
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission".
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for here you have been, and there you will always long to return."
--Leonardo da Vinci
<OT>
The American Association of Nuns doesn't like the line "Get thee to a nunnery"
It should be noted that in Shakespeare's time, "nunnery" was not taken to mean "convent" by the audience. It was a slang term for, ahh, shall we say, "a house of ill repute".
Was that line offensive to the madams of the time?
</OT>
Now, I am not, by any means, a racist in any way, shape, or form. And I have to wonder what the motivation of someone who calls me, or someone holding my particular viewpoint, on an issue, a racist (either directly or by implication).
My question is, does this person who complained initially about the master/slave labels, have genuine concerns, or is he just grandstanding in order to make him feel like he accomplished something good?
I will close by offering some sage words of advice from the late Ann Landers:
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission".
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for here you have been, and there you will always long to return."
--Leonardo da Vinci
sleipnir214
Programmer
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I was doing some research on removing or changing words from lexicons for politically correct purposes. I remember a brouhaha that came out of American Sign Language -- my recollection is that several years ago there was some consternation over the fact that the Ameslan symbols for "Jewish" and either "greedy" or "stingy" were very very similar and may have been derived from one another.
Anyway, I never found anything about the Ameslan question, but I did find one website talking about non-politically-correct speech in sign languages, and it mentioned that in Russian sign language, the way to express the concept of "American" was to pretend to rub a fat belly while simultaneously mouthing the Russian word for "capitalism".
I kinda liked that one and had to share it.
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flapeyre:
The "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission" quote is generally attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. But if Mrs. Roosevelt didn't originally say it, it's something Ann Landers would have coined.
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I was doing some research on removing or changing words from lexicons for politically correct purposes. I remember a brouhaha that came out of American Sign Language -- my recollection is that several years ago there was some consternation over the fact that the Ameslan symbols for "Jewish" and either "greedy" or "stingy" were very very similar and may have been derived from one another.
Anyway, I never found anything about the Ameslan question, but I did find one website talking about non-politically-correct speech in sign languages, and it mentioned that in Russian sign language, the way to express the concept of "American" was to pretend to rub a fat belly while simultaneously mouthing the Russian word for "capitalism".
I kinda liked that one and had to share it.
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flapeyre:
The "No one can make you feel inferior without your permission" quote is generally attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt. But if Mrs. Roosevelt didn't originally say it, it's something Ann Landers would have coined.
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CajunCenturion
Programmer
flapeyre - I think your comments about the nunnery are quite appropriate. It is another example of how words or phrases which in context are just fine, but when taken out of context, become targets for the PC police.
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<<It should be noted that in Shakespeare's time, "nunnery" was not taken to mean "convent" by the audience. It was a slang term for, ahh, shall we say, "a house of ill repute".>>
Damn. And all those years I thought my ol' Uncle Chester was such a pious man when he'd say he was goin' to the nunnery.![[gorgeous]](/data/assets/smilies/gorgeous.gif "[gorgeous] [gorgeous]")
--jsteph
Damn. And all those years I thought my ol' Uncle Chester was such a pious man when he'd say he was goin' to the nunnery.
--jsteph
Stella740pl
Programmer
sleipnir214
... it mentioned that in Russian sign language, the way to express the concept of "American" was to pretend to rub a fat belly while simultaneously mouthing the Russian word for "capitalism".
As a side note to your side note I have to mention, that Russian word for "capitalism" is "capitalism", just spelled using Cyrillic alphabet, and sounds nearly the same. Well, very close. I cannot say anything about the sign language, though.
Stella
... it mentioned that in Russian sign language, the way to express the concept of "American" was to pretend to rub a fat belly while simultaneously mouthing the Russian word for "capitalism".
As a side note to your side note I have to mention, that Russian word for "capitalism" is "capitalism", just spelled using Cyrillic alphabet, and sounds nearly the same. Well, very close. I cannot say anything about the sign language, though.
Stella
... it mentioned that in Russian sign language, the way to express the concept of "American" was to pretend to rub a fat belly while simultaneously mouthing the Russian word for "capitalism".
Did you rub your own fat belly or somebody else's? <grin>
Did you rub your own fat belly or somebody else's? <grin>
sleipnir214
Programmer
Actually, now that I think about it, the Russian Sign Language sign for "American" is probably politically correct...relative to the Soviet era of Russian politics.
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Georgi1chuikov
IS-IT--Management
#1 The rise of political correctness = the fall of free speech. Lets go burn the whole Constitution as the first amendment is now un-important. LIBERTY? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING LIBERTY AS IT IS OFFENSIVE TO OTHERS.
#2 SATA drives do not have this relationship, they are the future so it will be a moot point anyway in this specific case.
I do have a glimmer of hope tho as anti PC outrage is growing.
#2 SATA drives do not have this relationship, they are the future so it will be a moot point anyway in this specific case.
I do have a glimmer of hope tho as anti PC outrage is growing.
cryptogro4
MIS
I don't think you could change the master/slave to primary/secondary for the simple fact that you can have more than one device connected on the interface.
So if you have 2 drives on one interface, on the former master:
primary-primary and the primary-secondary;
and on the second interface, formerly known as slave, you have:
secondary-primary and the secondary-secondary.
No wait, that is some much clearer. Gee, thank you to all the PC people.
I suppose you are also the one's who support the ACLU criticizing the USMC for recognizing the birth of the Marine Corps because some leatherneck's were photographed saying a prayer, which offended you because it was on government time (and there must be separation between church and state, you bellow).
Well, to you who think that the master/slave lingo is so wrong, my answer to you is the same as the answer a Marine general gave when asked about the ACLU suit:
F@#! them.
So if you have 2 drives on one interface, on the former master:
primary-primary and the primary-secondary;
and on the second interface, formerly known as slave, you have:
secondary-primary and the secondary-secondary.
No wait, that is some much clearer. Gee, thank you to all the PC people.
I suppose you are also the one's who support the ACLU criticizing the USMC for recognizing the birth of the Marine Corps because some leatherneck's were photographed saying a prayer, which offended you because it was on government time (and there must be separation between church and state, you bellow).
Well, to you who think that the master/slave lingo is so wrong, my answer to you is the same as the answer a Marine general gave when asked about the ACLU suit:
F@#! them.
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