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To: GeronL

BOMBAY style terrorist attack.

I don’t abide by the renaming conventions that are so PC these days.


7 posted on 09/01/2014 1:37:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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To: a fool in paradise
I don’t abide by the renaming conventions that are so PC these days

Bombay. Burma. Ivory Coast.

If not, why not Deutschland? Italia? Suomi?

17 posted on 09/01/2014 2:42:30 PM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: a fool in paradise
BOMBAY style terrorist attack. I don’t abide by the renaming conventions that are so PC these days.

Nothing to do with PC. Many place names have been retrograded from British-influence and Portuguese-influence (Bombay, probably) to historical Indian names (Hindu goddess Mumbadevi).

56 posted on 09/01/2014 8:23:34 PM PDT by steve86 ( Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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