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