Back up the turnip wagon there, Glenn. Change never occurs in a vacuum, on its own, without external stimuli. You very admirably went half way with the point that there was a requisite for an additional application. (That's a lot further than many are willing or able to take the discussion.)
But to say that there is not a motivation behind the stimuli falls short of describing the complete situation. This is a socio/political matter, both in objective and movitation. It's a dialectic the West has been struggling with for a long time. PC is such a framework that the change fits within rather nicely. The parallel is more akin to a Search & Replace operation. The world has always been driven, and that by philosophers. It does not wander aimlessly but looks for something to fill its emptiness. Sometimes money, sometimes manipulation, sometimes control, sometimes autonomy. They all have failed miserably. CRB >Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:39:56 -0400 (EDT) >From: "D. Glenn Arthur Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Collin observed: >> Before Political Correctness destroyed language in favor of >> the New Speak, "gender" was a gammatical term. As explained >> to me years ago: >> "Words have gender, people have sex." > >It's not political correctness -- it's recognition that >the world is more complex than previous usage allowed >convenient descriptions of, that another word was needed, >and that a convenient nearby word would serve double-duty >pretty unconfusingly. > >Think of it as an "overloaded operator" in C++. > >In other words, normal language evolution motivated by a >need to be able to describe concepts, not a reworking for >a political/social agenda. > >-- Glenn
