Are politically correct equivalents too absurd? Do we need them?

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For example, short people - vertically challenged people, fat people - horizontally challenged people.
Do they pay more attention?

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[+3] - engineer - 01/15/2015"Vertically challenged" is more like a joke. I've never heard "Horizontally challenged" before.

@Ekaterina,

Esp, Ek, I like "euthanize"

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@Ekaterina,

Are you having difficulty learning English?

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@ehBeth,

No. I'm doing a research about politically corectness

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@Ekaterina,

Does media actually use these other terms you're suggesting? do you have statistics on the relative use of the terms?

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@ehBeth,

I have a research of russian linguist, who suggests theese terms, that's why i have asked about them.
I haven't gor statistics in my book

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@Ekaterina,

I think people have the impression the terms are used much more than they actually are.

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@ehBeth,

really? Can you help me? maybe you know terms which are used more often?

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@ehBeth,

"Vertically challenged" is more like a joke. I've never heard "Horizontally challenged" before.

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@Ekaterina,

Well I have never heard of these terms used in every day conversation and I am a "vertically challenged person" -- I suggest you get a new research of russian linguist.

Things that would be used for short people to be politically correct would be petite. Lttle person would be used with those with dwarfism.

For fat person - overweight, heavy --

The ones you mention may be used -- but it is typically when making a joke or trying to be funny about being overly sensitive or overly politically correct.

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i think we should just put "word" after the first letter of every word so we don't offend anyone

i-word w-word t-word t-word s-word = i went to the store

see, easy and nobody gets hurt

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@djjd62,

djjd62 wrote:

i went to the store

Because of this, I'm in a world of hurt.

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@Ekaterina,

Ekaterina wrote:

Do they pay more attention?

does who pay more attention?

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@Ekaterina,

Ekaterina wrote:

No. I'm doing a research about politically corectness

a research

don't you mean research?

or perhaps you mean to say Ï'm researching political correctness"

_________

also - correctness is the correct spelling

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@Ekaterina,

Ekaterina wrote:

I have a research of russian linguist

what does this mean? are you researching a russian linguist?

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@Ekaterina,

The examples you give -- vertically challenged etc. -- are not examples of 'political correctness' at all. Rather, it's an example of mocking the concept of such correctness, of making fun of legitimate terms such as 'differently-abled' for 'disabled' etc. Do we need them? I don't; I never use such euphemisms.

I don't understand your last sentence, "Do they pay more attention?" Does who pay more attention to what?

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@Ekaterina,

I think Kat it's done for a chuckle

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@InfraBlue,

InfraBlue wrote:

djjd62 wrote:
i went to the store

Because of this, I'm in a world of hurt.

i'll bring you back a chocolate bar if that would help

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