phases that make me want to smack someone

**Freedom** · 08-01-2007, 05:40 PM

Originally Posted by Catlady711

For example....
I have a mailman or a maillady NOT a mailPERSON!
I have firemen NOT fire persons ( just so happens all our firemen are actually men here ).
I have police men or police woman NOT police persons!
.........
I'm still waiting for the politically correct versions of nursery rhymes to take over and no longer will our children read such things as....

Mail carrier; fire fighter; police officer. Gender neutral terms DO exist and always have.

As for the nursery rhymes, well I guess someone will do it; they already did that to the Holiday Stories! -- the Bedtime Stories -- and Fairy Tales!

http://www.amazon.com/Politically-Co.../dp/0028604202

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 08-01-2007, 05:47 PM

Hahahahahaha!!!
I bet people in England cringe at our "proper" English!!!

**K9soul** · 08-01-2007, 05:56 PM

I guess I'm pretty accepting of the different ways people speak. It does not make me angry or make me feel like smacking anyone if they speak differently from me or speak with regional dialect-isms. Everyone is different in background, education, location and so on. Some of the silly ways of saying things become endearing in people I've been close to. For example my great grandma spoke very old Ozarks type talk, I suppose hillbilly-like, and I treasured being around her and treasured the way she spoke, even if it wasn't "proper." She was a loving and wonderful lady and when I think of her and remember her saying 'tomaters' or 'worshing the sheets' it makes me smile.

So in general I can't say people's way of speaking or even various phrases they may say gets under my skin. It just becomes a part of that person.

**critter crazy** · 08-01-2007, 06:05 PM

I think the biggest thing that irritates me, is when people bust on me, about how I talk! If you dont like what I say, or how I say it, dont listen! This is, after all a free country!

**Sevaede** · 08-01-2007, 06:17 PM

I don't really *hate* any bits of speech.

Phrases such as "don't got no" have a tendency to make me wince, though. Again, I don't hate any bits of speech, the people who use them, nor would I get physical with those folks.

My husband is a *very* intelligent and capable southerner who uses "y'all" sometimes. It has never impeded his search for jobs.