Posts Tagged ‘language’

Left? Right?

Friday, October 31st, 2008

I hate people who use left and right to describe a circular motion.

Sure it’s OK if you’re ie. in a car, when it’s clear what is meant, the perspective is same for everyone. But what pisses me off is if someone uses it in a sentence like Turn the bolt left. What the heck is that!?

Let me tell you something, Einstein: The words used to describe the direction of rotation are clockwise and counterclockwise (or anticlockwise for stupid some people…)

Political correctness

Monday, October 27th, 2008

One of the things that really pisses me off is the so called politically correct language, the language that tries to make things sound less bad than they really are, the language that robs words of their power, the language that is boring and overly complicated.

The whole concept of political correctness is plain ridiculous! Calling something with a different name doesn’t change the thing at all. Calling blind people visually challenged doesn’t fix the condition. Calling fat peopleĀ obese or even horizontally challenged doesn’t magically make them loose 50 pounds. All it does is make communication slower and more difficult to digest.

What the world currently needs is unhindered communication, free communication, communication that can stretch national and cultural boundaries, communication that unites people, not overly complicated bullshit that tries to hide the truth.