Re: PS: Offensive Nisus Thesuarus

[Geoffrey Heard]

Alan's sally is relevant, though. In Australia, 
the correct thing is to speak of "person with a 
disability" -- and I think that is pretty fair. 
Why should a person be labelled as globally 
disabled when, say, they mostly have just one 
function not working so well. But even that runs 
into difficulties. There is this group of deaf 
people, for instance, who reject the labelling of 
their lack of hearing as a disability and 
campaign against the cochlear implant -- they say 
being deaf is not having a disability which ought 
to be corrected but is simply different and in 
itself, valid, human form. Personally, I don't 
buy that, but think of the quagmire it opens up 
if you are labelling words as nasty.

Cheers
Geoff
At 12:39 PM +0100 28/2/04, Kirsten & Erik Richard wrote:
Hei Alan & Eric

Hey, what are we talking about? - Is it people 
or is it computing language? - I was thinking 
that this issue was about computer language, and 
here we say 'enable' for 'turn ON' and 'disable' 
for 'turn OFF'.

But if we are talking 'politically correctness' 
then it's quite another matter... Frankly said 
I've never heard - or used - the term 
"disadvantaged" for handicapped people. In my 
Danish-Englsih thesaurus the translation for 
'handicapped' is either "handicapped" _or_ 
"impaired".

I do know that some people don't like the word 
"handicapped", but I think that this is the most 
common and international word, and it is 
understood in any language.

And if it is a matter of how many suggestions to 
be entered into a word list or thesaurus, - then 
take them all, and let us be free for this 
eternal returning discussion! Thanks!

Cheers, Erik Richard

Alan & Elaine Donaghue-Harris wrote:

Dear Sir, Please note that the term "disabled" 
is offensive. The correct term is "physically 
disadvantaged."

Eric Bobinsky wrote:

I wasn't aware of this issue, since I never disabled the filter =...
(my apologies for the frivolity; I thought it 
was too good an example to miss)
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