Little-Acorn
05-10-2011, 09:24 PM
When I first heard of this yesterday, I was sure it was a typo. But now it's been up for two days, with talk-show hosts deriding and lampooning it every step of the way... and nobody from the Washington Post has come to change it.
Gambling has become "gaming" - a word that was never even a verb.
Jungles have become "rain forests", as though rain only happens in jungles and not in real forests.
Socialists became "liberals", and then "progressives" as people found out that "liberals" were anything but.
All this was done to try to avoid the nasty (though true) connotations of the original words.
Now, apparently China's Communist Party has become that country's "Community Party".
If we take away all the ugly words, we won't have any more ugliness. Right?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us_china_open_talks_amid_criticism_of_rights_econo mic_policies/2011/05/09/AFfWwmcG_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
U.S., China open talks amid criticism of rights, economic policies
by Howard Schneider and Mary Beth Sheridan
Published: May 9, 2011
U.S. officials pressed China to open its economy more fully and criticized recent political arrests as the nations began two days of talks in Washington on economic, military and other issues.
(snip)
Still, the U.S. is using the meetings to push into sensitive terrain — urging the Community Party-controlled government to loosen control of its financial system, a major source of state power and conduit of investment to state-controlled enterprises.
Gambling has become "gaming" - a word that was never even a verb.
Jungles have become "rain forests", as though rain only happens in jungles and not in real forests.
Socialists became "liberals", and then "progressives" as people found out that "liberals" were anything but.
All this was done to try to avoid the nasty (though true) connotations of the original words.
Now, apparently China's Communist Party has become that country's "Community Party".
If we take away all the ugly words, we won't have any more ugliness. Right?
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/us_china_open_talks_amid_criticism_of_rights_econo mic_policies/2011/05/09/AFfWwmcG_story.html?wprss=rss_politics
U.S., China open talks amid criticism of rights, economic policies
by Howard Schneider and Mary Beth Sheridan
Published: May 9, 2011
U.S. officials pressed China to open its economy more fully and criticized recent political arrests as the nations began two days of talks in Washington on economic, military and other issues.
(snip)
Still, the U.S. is using the meetings to push into sensitive terrain — urging the Community Party-controlled government to loosen control of its financial system, a major source of state power and conduit of investment to state-controlled enterprises.