Posted on 12/15/2010 8:37:11 AM PST by Zakeet
Don’t know about “undocumented democrat,” since ACORN has already been working very hard in their behalf. How about “pre-registered democrat”?
How about “People who get all the free stuff”?
It contains lots of short words that Journalists can easily spell.
Illegal alien works best.
Illegal immigrant implies that they will eventually be seeking citizenship. Until that aim is expressly declared they remain aliens.
I’ll be more than happy to drop the term “illegal immigrant” from my vocabulary and use the term “illegal alien” in its place.
It used to be their job to report ~ not make up, and in this case their argument is that the AP style book is out of date and should change. Anybody could have told them that ~ took AP ages to learn to refer to "Conservative" instead of "Rightist", and "President Bush" instead of "Shrub".
But, that doesn't matter anymore. The INTERNET controls the style book these days. If you can't say "s--t" then you spell it "5h|+"; and a gazillion of us already know a dozen ways to evade every attempt to regulate our discussions of sex, sexual matters and sexual equipment, and try as they might the gay blades get referred to by all the new terms as well as the old terms and there's nothing they can do about it but cry their widdle eyes out!
That’d be an explicitly homosexual video, right?
I agree we should replace “illegal immigrant” with something more definitive.
I suggest “border jumper”, “invader”, or “criminal interloper”. Other more colorful (and pejorative) appellations might also suffice.
I am going to take up a crusade against the term “Society for Professional Journalists” since they’re neither professional nor journalists.
Syme to Winston, cafeteria
‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’ he said. ‘We’re getting the language into its final shape — the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again. You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words — scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.’
As a replacement term I nominate “F`ing Foreign Invaders.”
Mike
Ping!
Um, that is a very hurtful phrase. I think we’d need to say “...it’s an exploration into the alternative lifestyles of creative free thinkers....”
Oooooh, I LIKE that! How about “imminent deportee”?
Hey, a quick thought ~ “illegal alan” (as in “Alan Grayson” the crazy guy).
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