[WikiEN-l] Sep 11
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Fri Jan 16 09:42:42 UTC 2004
Daniel Mayer wrote:
>Toby Bartels wrote:
>
>>This assumes that there's a reason for it to be in the title at all.
>>Why is that? What else could "September 11, 2001 attack" mean?
>>Titles are not required to be maximally complete.
>>
>
>Point taken. I was operating under the assumption that your reasoning was only
>that 'terrorist' should be blacklisted from the title because it is a "loaded
>term". 'September 11 Attack' is *at least* used as often as 'September 11
>Terrorist Attack' (probably more so). Of course we would have the add '2001'
>to the title because of ambiguity reasons.
>
I can easily live with the year in the title.
>>Since this is a digression, I won't go on about what slander the
>>term "PC" is. Suffice it to say that no social movement called
>>itself that.
>>
>
>Well there is no political action committee whose aim is PC that I am aware
>of, nor any groups that have exclusively pro-PC meetings. PC is more of a
>cross-group "movement" to change the English language (using the word
>"movement" very loosely). Perhaps "trend" would be more accurate (even though
>there are many counter trends to PC that help to negate its progress).
>
They exist in some places. Latin American death squads fall in that
category. In the United States the Ku Klux Klan had its own PC agenda.
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