On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:49 AM, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Actually, no, int this case I'm specifically concerned with adjective >> > usage "retarded devices". Where the implication is there is something >> > wrong with the device. Unfortunately in the US it has become a slur >> > and slang term to classify the "worst of things". I suspect that >> > usage has not made it to the UK? >> >> I think what hasn't made it to the UK is an undue emphasis on political >> correctness. > > And also that in British English we simply reclaimed the word rather than > giving it away to those who misused it. Trying to use it as an insult > just makes someone in the UK sound like they've been watching too much > 1970-80s television. :-) Here's hoping it meets a similar fate in the US. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
