I remember, a little bit ago, how we would laugh over the politically correct terms we were to use instead of what were common--and we would make jokes. Of course, one of the jokes was that the politically correct term for 'short' was 'vertically challenged.' 'Bald' men were 'follicle-ly challenged.' And so on. Now, I'm not, by any means, trying to say we should go back to the days when 'those words' were used commonly--and we all know what 'those words' were--but it is getting a bit ridiculous.
I recently read an article that had a list of 'correct' words as opposed to the 'incorrect' ones. To say I was appalled, is putting it mildly. Really now, just WHAT is wrong with some of these 'incorrect' words? And here is part of the list:
WRONG word/term---CORRECT word/term
- disabled person, crippled---person with a disability
- confined to a wheelchair---person who has a mobility impairment
- quadriplegic/paraplegic---person who is paralyzed
- stroke victim/suffered from stroke---person who has had a stroke
- epilectic---person who has epilepsy
- mute---person without speech
