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I'm currently re-reading Agatha Christie's 'Ten Little N......', subsequently retitled 'Ten Little Indians', and now 'Ten Little Soldiers' - that, I suppose will remain until 'Soldiers' becomes another non-pc word. But I digress. It got me wondering why you selected your username. Care to enlighten me?
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As naomi started the digression in her own thread I'll continue.
I don't think so Lynn. Are you suggesting the reluctance to use the word N***** is an example of "PC mad". Would you call a black person a N*****.
Language changes. We used to called disabled people Spastics but now use something like 'person with disabilities' - a much better term in my opinion that shows they are people- just as a black person is
I don't think so Lynn. Are you suggesting the reluctance to use the word N***** is an example of "PC mad". Would you call a black person a N*****.
Language changes. We used to called disabled people Spastics but now use something like 'person with disabilities' - a much better term in my opinion that shows they are people- just as a black person is
I always think replacing one word with another is rather silly… and sillier still is replacing a word with just its initial letter. For example, when we read ‘N…..’, the whole word runs through our head, it still exists, so I see no point whatsoever in pussyfooting around it - but we do because political correctness has rendered it unacceptable to do otherwise.
I read her books voraciously when I was around 12 years old and really looked forward to seeing them as films- but whilst I enjoyed the Margaret Rutherford ones I found all the later TV and film versions disappointing and often rather silly. I think I should read some of them again- thanks for the reminder.
I wonder if you can still get Biggles books- I read all those too when I was around 10 but I know they went out of favour for being racist I think, although I didn't notice at the time
I wonder if you can still get Biggles books- I read all those too when I was around 10 but I know they went out of favour for being racist I think, although I didn't notice at the time
//I know they went out of favour for being racist //
I've read several of her books and never noticed that before, but having now been conditioned by our politically correct society to spot such horrors, reading some of the things she's written in this one came as a bit of a surprise. However, in her defence the concept of racism didn't really exist in her day.
I've read several of her books and never noticed that before, but having now been conditioned by our politically correct society to spot such horrors, reading some of the things she's written in this one came as a bit of a surprise. However, in her defence the concept of racism didn't really exist in her day.
Naomi, I'm just reading Arthur C Clarke's Childhoods End which was written in '53. Clarke sometimes get's the future spot on but he certainly got it wrong in this para:
The inevitable reaction that had given early twenty-first-century Negroes a slight sense of superiority had already passed away. The convenient word ‘***’ was no longer taboo in polite society, but was used without embarrassment by everyone. It had no more emotional content than such labels as republican or methodist, conservative or liberal.
The inevitable reaction that had given early twenty-first-century Negroes a slight sense of superiority had already passed away. The convenient word ‘***’ was no longer taboo in polite society, but was used without embarrassment by everyone. It had no more emotional content than such labels as republican or methodist, conservative or liberal.
Naomi- regarding your "fiction-factory, pardon?" I had tried to type the word that you had typed as N...... but the AB filter changed it to 3 asterisks.
I didn't say Agatha Christie's books went out of favour for being racist- I was referring to the Biggles books when I said "I wonder if you can still get Biggles books- I read all those too when I was around 10 but I know they went out of favour for being racist I think, although I didn't notice at the time"
I didn't say Agatha Christie's books went out of favour for being racist- I was referring to the Biggles books when I said "I wonder if you can still get Biggles books- I read all those too when I was around 10 but I know they went out of favour for being racist I think, although I didn't notice at the time"
