Off topic: Politically correct dictionary (\'nothing controversial\') Thread poster: Jacek Krankowski (X)
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Jacek Krankowski (X) 
English to Polish
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\"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
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| | | | Maya Jurt (X)
Switzerland
Local time: 19:32
French to German
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| 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
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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: 15:32
English to Spanish
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JL
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