Yea I mostly agree. make of it what you will, but the simple, descriptive and accurate Anglo- Saxon words like : stupid, dumb, blind, shit, fuck, black, white, deaf, lame, and a thousand etceteras, have been supplanted by a pseudo scientific language, primarilly latinate, but other things too. How this came about I don't venture to think about in this post. Tho' I do venture to think about.Withought the functioning part of my brian, I am legally braindead. So what? That 's why they invented eyeglasses, buddy! I can't hear out of three/quarters of my elbow, and my crotch smells like fermented goats milk, unless I wash it religously, and take the swab. There are greater problems.Did you know that there are 17 million vision imparied people in China?(unquote)
Do you mean blind or they just need glasses? "Blind" is a perfectly useful word. Cruel? So is circumstance and railing against it avails little. (By the by, without glasses, I am legally blind in one eye.)
Enter the code above* T'was brillig and a slithy tove came to rest gently on my lip sickles.
Withought the functioning part of my brian, I am legally braindead. So what? (unquote)
My rather obvious point was that 1) I know what eye problems are like; 2) I still say there is no need to go namby-pamby and jettison perfectly useful words like blind. If folk be offended, well that's just the breaks innit? Buddha or some such wise git said that words is words; the offense is sumpin' added by the listener. There. My point put into plainer English. Sorry, I ain't got time to swab your throat so's you don't choke to death on your own spit, too.
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