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On 22 Sep 2006 12:22:29 -0700, Jan  wrote:

>Sorry, Charlie, that's just flat wrong.  It is NOT an engineering term although
>it might once have been.  It's nothing more than a slur.
>
>I would think that engineers, generally assumed to be reasonably bright, should
>have been able to come up with a non-race-specific term by now as a substitute
>*if they'd been inclined*.  How about 'ignoramus','Twit' or any of dozens of
>synonyms for 'not very well done'?
>
>Just pasting a lable like PC on something you don't like doesn't make it okay. 
>If there weren't needed changes in language and perception, the term Political
>Correctness would never have been coined.

FWIW, this engineer has /never/ heard that "term." We would have
called such a lashup a Kludge.

-- 
Josh

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