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Various notes on /usr unification

Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Feb 29, 2012 19:45 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164)
In reply to: Various notes on /usr unification by mpr22
Parent article: Various notes on /usr unification

... which is exactly what has happened a few times already with words referring to immigrants in NL. A word is used, it becomes 'a dirty word', the political correct start using another word, that word becomes similarly emotionally laden, new word gets picked, etcetera. Doesn't change a thing...


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Various notes on /usr unification

Posted Mar 1, 2012 14:34 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

This is called the euphemism treadmill.

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