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Spade is a spade

Posted by Bruce Swanwick on August 05, 2000

In Reply to: Call a spade a spade posted by Bruce Kahl on July 27, 2000

As the term seems to have links with a bygone age we perhaps have a duty as people of today to be aware of terms that might offend others and try to stop using them in context that could be confused or missinterpreted, We have a duty to protect language, but more importantly a duty to our present day peers to be aware of influances that our verbal communication can have in the here ans now.

Bruce Swanwick

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