[Gllug] BETT at Olympia

[Pete Ryland]

On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 19:51, Pete Ryland wrote:
> Interesting.  IIRC, in Australia[1], the word 'disabled' is the one that
<snip>

Sorry, should have read the rest of the thread first.  Why am I such a
sucker for OT threads anyway? :)

FWIW, IMO there's nothing wrong with terms like spastic, deaf and dumb
(not sure what 'joey' means).  Children will always be children, and
name-calling won't stop by changing terminology.  One would hope that
most people grow out of this, but sadly we know that there are quite a
lot who don't.  It reflects on *them* and their lack of intrinsic
confidence in *themselves*, not to mention their lack of intelligence.

And for this same reason (maybe this *is* on topic) we shouldn't deride
other operating systems with name-calling and misspellings which at the
end of the day is seen as negative and childish by others.

Pete
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