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Subject:RE: It did happen on a Friday... From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:15:42 -0500
Hi Kevin,
Political correctness is not the point. If a word jars or offends our
audience (whether or not it jars or offends *us*), then that word is an
obstacle to clear technical writing. Out with it.
Dan Goldstein
> ... I sneer at those who have any faintest sympathy for dumping
> master and slave because of stupid, misplaced political
> correctness (often a weasel phrase in itself...)....
>
> /kevin
