Orwellian Eurospeak/Euphemisms

[AtW]

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Ah yes very nice.

[russell]

I wouldn't be laughing if the house next to mine was on fire. If you think the Euro exploding wont impact the UK then you are clueless.

[sasguru]

I wouldn't be laughing if the house next to mine was on fire. If you think the Euro exploding wont impact the UK then you are clueless.

What do you want me to do, dress in sackcloth and ashes? Twunt.

[Jeff Maginty]

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[Doggy Styles]

Excellent idea for a thread. Respect to sasguru!

I'm a bit slow, but I see what you did there.

[Mich the Tester]

This thread needs girls!

[SueEllen]

How about all the PC newspeak that abounds these days.

I can't stand the word gender.

What's un-pc about the word sex when differentiating between membership of the male or female camp?

It's so a transexual,transvestite, or more importantly someone who has a chromosomal abnormality meaning they didn't know what "sex" they were would easily be able to say what "gender" they were. There are also people who decide they are a "third gender". For most of us it doesn't make a blind bit of difference as both are the same.

[Bunk]

It's so a transexual,transvestite, or more importantly someone who has a chromosomal abnormality meaning they didn't know what "sex" they were would easily be able to say what "gender" they were. There are also people who decide they are a "third gender". For most of us it doesn't make a blind bit of difference as both are the same.

Really? I always thought it was because sex can have a few different meanings whereas gender has a much clearer meaning.

[mudskipper]

Really? I always thought it was because sex can have a few different meanings whereas gender has a much clearer meaning.

I thought it was because 90% of the male gender and 10% of the female gender were writing 'Yes please' whenever an official form said

Surname:
First Name:
Sex:

[SueEllen]

Really? I always thought it was because sex can have a few different meanings whereas gender has a much clearer meaning.

"Sex" is actually clearer as you can only have "Male" or "Female". This is why it's used on anything official like birth certificate or a passport, which are used as ID to comply with laws where "Sex" is important i.e. marriage.

There as "Gender" is more likely used on things like council diversity monitoring forms where it doesn't really matter if you put you are "xxy", "hermaphrodite", "third gender" or "alien".

To be honest I think it's a fast as if you are stuck with what you view is the wrong "Sex" on your birth certificate then putting a different "Gender" on a diversity monitoring form isn't really helpful.