Politically correct speech? Precision pronouns?
"Person of color" is one striking contortion.
My trans friend insists on the royal "we" and "they".
It a linguistic reaction to an emotion.
It's a kind of built-up language. It's got layers.
Like Germanic agglutination, except in a different dimension.
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What, we can put the Australians and Africans under the microscope but not us?
See, being from the blood gang the gentleman would not use the letter C in their speech hence the absurd pronunciation of a common ice cream… Kinda hilarious and fascinating but it’s real…
If you use the term “person of color” only in the presence of people of color and you use a different word when they’re not around- that sounds like something else.
or as most folks would phrase it: "not being an asshole"
"Avoidance speech is a group of sociolinguistic phenomena in which a special restricted speech style must be used in the presence of or in reference to certain relatives."
So that could fit the bill right?