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Euro Chiefs Ban 'Miss' and 'Mrs'
Telegraph (UK) ^
| March 15, 2009
Posted on 03/15/2009 9:40:48 PM PDT by Steelfish
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:40:48 PM PDT
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Steelfish
To: Steelfish
I’m in favor of the gender-neutral “Asshat”.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:41:45 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: Steelfish
Certainly is no excess of manliness over there to offend the euroweenies.
To: Steelfish
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:45:05 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
To: Steelfish
This sounds doubleplusgood!!!
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:45:33 PM PDT
by
frankiep
(Ron Paul was right)
To: Steelfish
They have no problem with “neck choppers”, it would appear.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:47:51 PM PDT
by
ButThreeLeftsDo
(Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
To: Steelfish
Last I checked, Humans come in boy type and girl type.
If they’re going to start doing stupid things, where will it stop?
Will we not be able to have nations? races? families?
Why call a Jew a Jew or an Arab an Arab? Someone might get offended.
While we’re at it, let’s get rid of age language to, we’re all the same age with the same experience, no matter if you’ve been here for 3 years or 300 years!
Also, why don’t we blur the lines between idiots and intellectuals... oh wait... we already have, I guess that was the first to go.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:48:14 PM PDT
by
PureSolace
(Trust in God)
To: Steelfish
Does Islam really sound as bad as this crap? ... really? What is worse? Insane European socialist or a Islamist traditionalist? I'm torn... I'm truly torn.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:48:34 PM PDT
by
Porterville
( I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum)
To: Steelfish
Well, seeing as how they don’t have any other problems I can see how they could become mired in such picayune, politically correct matters.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:49:06 PM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
To: Steelfish
The booklet also admits that "no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress', allowing parliamentarians to use these words in a restaurant or café.Dunno about that... we've been using the generic "waitron" in the food business here in the States for a long time. Friggin idjits.
/johnny
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:49:16 PM PDT
by
JRandomFreeper
(God Bless us all, each, and every one.)
To: Steelfish
reporterette
anchorette
aviatrix
editrix
blogress
motoriste
chanteuse
To: Steelfish
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:50:34 PM PDT
by
Interesting Times
(For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
To: Steelfish
So I guess Mr and Ms are taboo?
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:51:09 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: Interesting Times
As noted repeatedly here since 2001, the EU is just the Sovs w/o the tanks.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:53:35 PM PDT
by
SAJ
To: Steelfish
I would think ‘server’ would fit as an alternative to waiter or waitress.
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:54:50 PM PDT
by
Frogtacos
(When our economy falls in the well can we elect Lassie as president?)
To: Steelfish
Why don't they ban the Romance Languages altogether? after all, don't most of the words have a gender assigned? Why trouble yourself over whether it's la pussy or le pussy when talking about the neutered male of the species?
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posted on
03/15/2009 9:57:35 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(May God save America from its government; this is no time for Obamateurs. Emmanuel = Haldeman?)
To: NonValueAdded
Very good point and all the operas and classical music.
To: Steelfish
Apparently no real, pressing matters to solve in the European Parliament.
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posted on
03/15/2009 10:00:44 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Steelfish
The EU should, instead, focus on making all countries have gender-neutral nouns. There is no good reason to have the articles der (masculine), die (feminine), and das (neutral), which all mean “the”, to modify German nouns, for example. Many other non-English languages have the same problem. It makes learning to speak a foreign language a pain in the buttinsky.
The Mr. and Mrs. thing pales in comparison.
To: Steelfish
"no gender-neutral term has been successfully proposed" to replace 'waiter' and 'waitress'I propose "Waitron" for most of the EU, and in France they can use Pompous Twit...
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posted on
03/15/2009 10:05:52 PM PDT
by
RobFromGa
(I want to panic but I'm too confused...)
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