The Global Language Monitor
Has put out its "Top Politically inCorrect Words for 2005"
The right side of the blogosphere should note with satisfaction that the BBC is the headliner of this "top ten" list:
1. Misguided Criminals for Terrorist: The BBC attempts to strip away all emotion by using what it considers neutral descriptions when describing those who carried out the bombings in the London Tubes. The rub: the professed intent of these misguided criminals was to kill, without warning, as many innocents as possible (which is the common definition for the term, terrorist).
My favorite comes in at number 5:
Out of the Mainstream when used to describe the ideology of any political opponent: At one time slavery was in the mainstream, thinking the sun orbited the earth was in the mainstream, having your blood sucked out by leeches was in the mainstream. What's so great about being in the mainstream?
We at DGITL hope you're having an out of the mainstream day.
