From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 20:48:05 MST
When one goofs at the keyboard it is called a
typo, so if one goofs the spoken word, I suppose
it is called a talko. There was a hilarious
talko on the radio news today. The newscaster
was commenting on a flight that was quarantined
on the runway in San Jose Tuesday for fear of SARS.
Background: PC-speak has mostly removed the term
"American" from the language, since it refers
to two continents and over a dozen nations. "U.S."
has replaced "American". At the same time the
term "black" when referrning to humans has been
universally replaced with "African-American" to
such an extent that whenever one sees the term
American, it is almost always preceded by African-.
Now we have become accustomed to it.
The radio newsman said "Regarding the African-American
Air... ahhh, rather, the American Airlines flight
quarantined in San Jose..."
I thought I would wet my diapers.
I would not be surprised if American Airlines
changes their name soon.
spike
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