Off topic: Politically correct dictionary (\'nothing controversial\') Thread poster: Jacek Krankowski (X)
| Jacek Krankowski (X) English to Polish + ...
\"Nothing controversial\" say the Off-topic guidelines. To help everyone to obey this rule, I think we should develop a little PC dictionary. Examples can be easily found on the web (WARNING: UNEDITED!):
ENGLISH>PC
Actor: metamorphosing being possessing great wealth Actress: metemorphosing being possessing great wealth and occassionally great beauty Android: bipedal, non-human associate bearing immense knowledg... See more \"Nothing controversial\" say the Off-topic guidelines. To help everyone to obey this rule, I think we should develop a little PC dictionary. Examples can be easily found on the web (WARNING: UNEDITED!):
ENGLISH>PC
Actor: metamorphosing being possessing great wealth Actress: metemorphosing being possessing great wealth and occassionally great beauty Android: bipedal, non-human associate bearing immense knowledge and skill Bag boy: agricultural product organizer Bald: follicularly challenged Being dynamited: it will have an explosive force upon surface impact that is sufficient to exceed the accepted over-pressure threshold of physiological damage for exposed persons Bomb: vertically deployed antipersonnel device Boy: oppressor-to-be Brainwashing: cognitive accomodation Broken nut: suffered dramatically degraded useful operational life owing to the fact that a hexiform rotatable surface compression unit underwent catastrophic stress-related shaft detachment Cafeteria: dining facility Car: earth-unfriendly, vertically-challenged mode of transport Car washer: vehicle-appearance specialist Cat: quadrapedal, non-human associate Cheating: cooperative assignment Computer: machine bearing immense power and fallibility Criticism: unjust self-esteem reducer Dead: metabolically challenged Demand: propose strongly Derision: nontraditional praise Dumb: cerebrally challenged Evil: niceness deprived Exercise: body enhancement through exertion Failure: nontraditional success Fart: human ozone depletor; ecologically incorrect expression Fat: horizontally challenged: person of substance Garbage collector: sanitation engineer Girl: pre-woman Guess: anomoly manoeuvres: repetitive predictions Handicapped: physically challenged Heroine: hera Hurricane: himmicane (non sexist) Incorrect: alternative answer Individualism: uncooperative spirit Information: overly structured trivia Insane: reality challenged Kill: creating a permanent state of metabolic dormancy; (military) servicing the target Lazy: motivationally dispossessed Left-handed oppression: sinistromanualism Light: electro-magnetic wave of photons striking the eye of an individual having the effect of a sense of the surrounding area Lost: locationally disadvantaged Man: oppressor Manhole: maintenance hole Misunderstand: personalized interpretation Monster: person of scales Mugging: unforseen funding of underclass Murderer: termination specialist Nerd: under-attractive, cerebrally gifted individual Numismatist: capitalist monetary acquisition expert Nut: hexagonal rotatable surface compression unit Old: chronologically gifted Perfume: discretionary fragrance Pervert: person engaged in nontraditional espionage Pissed off: satisfaction deprived Politicial: amorally gifted Poor: economically marginalized Prisoner: client of the correctional system Programmer: cerebrally gifted individual experiencing mental labors with a non-human silicon being. Prostitute: body entrepreneur Rich: economically maximized Right-handed imperialists: rectocentrism School: place where students Òdiscover themselvesÓ Secretary: stationery engineer Sex: cooperative physical fitness Sexist: gender biased with niceness deprived overtones Short: altitudinally disadvantaged: vertically challenged Sleepy: under-alertness Smart: cerebrally gifted Specialist: a physician having concentrated on a particular field of tax shelters Structure: impersonal hindrance Tall: vertically gifted: altitudinally endowed Teacher: volunteer knowledge conveyor Teaching: personality repression Television: medium of electrons moving in disorganized patterns Tired: rest-challenged Uglier: over under-attractive Ugliest: over-under-attractively gifted Ugly: under-attractive Unemployed: non-waged Unsure: conceptual conflict Waiter: waitron Waitress: waitron White: melanin-impoverished; member of the mutant albino genetic-recessive global minority Woman: w/o man; womyn Zipper: interlocking slide fasteners http://www-smi.stanford.edu/people/felciano/humor/pcdictionary.html
PC>ENGLISH
vertically challenged -- short horizontally gifted -- fat horizontally challenged -- thin chronologically gifted -- old intellectually impaired -- stupid living impaired -- dead romantically challenged -- not with somebody at the moment morally (/ethically) challenged -- a crook morally handicapped -- someone who has no other reason to park in a handicapped zone differently-brained -- stupid folically independent -- bald one who is PC -- target practice musically delayed -- tone deaf genetically discriminating -- racist codependent -- finger-pointer in recovery -- drunk/junkie in denial -- unaware that forgetting something obviously proves it happened constructivist feminist psychotherapy -- psychobabble economically disadvantaged -- welfare bum target equity group -- vocal minority sanitation engineer -- garbage man certified astrological consultant -- crackpot certified crystal therapist -- crackpot certified past-life regression hypnotist -- crackpot people of height -- too tall gravitationally challenged -- fat chronologically gifted -- old other aged -- too old/young (dual purpose) environmentally correct human -- dead Nitpicklike -- humor challenged motivationally challenged -- lazy outdoor urban dwellers -- homeless monetarily challenged -- poor facially challenged -- ugly visually challenged -- blind nasally gifted -- runny nose verbally challenged -- mute, dumb erectionally challenged -- impotent maintenance hole -- man-hole socially challenged -- geek, nerd, whatever... Cyclically challenged -- having PMS Caucasian Culturally-Disadvantaged -- white trash racially challenged -- butt-white American rhythmically challenged -- white boy financially inept -- poor osmotically challenged -- Thirsty Microslothicly Challenged -- Windows user aquatically challenged -- drowning male gender biased -- prefers men who shave their chests female gender biased -- prefers women who shave their legs follower of Jimmy Swaggert -- lost nasally disadvantaged -- really BIG nose nasally gifted -- large nose differently organized -- messy energy-efficient -- off creatively re-dyed -- stained petroleum transfer technician -- gas station attendant spacially perplexed -- drunk amphibian American -- frog persons of large stature -- NY Giants bovine control officers -- Dallas Cowboys residentially flexible -- homeless fecally plenary - full of crap uniquely coordinated -- clumsy anatomically focused chronologically gifted individual -- dirty old man uniquely fortuned individual on an alternative career path -- loser biological needs care provider -- prostitute metabolicly challenged -- dead biologically challenged -- dead person of region -- redneck rustically inclined -- redneck persons living with entropy -- dead mechanically challenged -- broken down automobile factually unencumbered -- ignorant http://www.ipreet.net/humor/2.htm
▲ Collapse | | | Maya Jurt Switzerland Local time: 13:56 French to German + ... You did it again... | Jan 22, 2003 |
Thanks Jacek, just perfect for us.
Maya
[ This Message was edited by:on2003-01-22 11:23] | | | Jacek Krankowski (X) English to Polish + ... TOPIC STARTER But now comes the true challenge | Jan 22, 2003 |
If I want to ask around about, say, future interpreting jobs with the EU for Polish citizens, I can hardly fail to mention the enlargement, which is the subject of a fierce political debate in Poland. Just imagine, the very mentioning of this POLITICAL topic could be construed as an attempt to influence the outcome of the national referendum to be held in Poland next year! So, my question to all the native speakers of English is:
How to correctly express the following idea... See more If I want to ask around about, say, future interpreting jobs with the EU for Polish citizens, I can hardly fail to mention the enlargement, which is the subject of a fierce political debate in Poland. Just imagine, the very mentioning of this POLITICAL topic could be construed as an attempt to influence the outcome of the national referendum to be held in Poland next year! So, my question to all the native speakers of English is:
How to correctly express the following idea: \"I *pray* [note: religious=controversial] for Polish to become one of the EU working languages *upon enlargement* [note: I am taking it for granted!]\"
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You accidentally used the word \"political\".
Should have been \'amorally gifted\'.
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José Luis Villanueva-Senchuk (X) Argentina Local time: 08:56 English to Spanish + ...
JL
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