The language police(men?) need to smoke a peace pipe

“Aloha”, “Hello” and “Shalom”. youor all you readers, whatever field where you work or whatever picnics you enjoy.

And if you are a handicapped (!) American (!) that he sometimes feels like he’s on the lower end of the totem pole(!) whenever his department has a powwow(!), even if he puts more man-hours(!) on the job than anyone else while suffering doubts and even booing from the peanut gallery (!), I want you to know that you are on my master list (!) of survivors (!) that I look up to. You’ve realized there’s more than one way to skin a cat(!), and now everything within your reach is fit(!). Good job.

‘LATINX’ IS NOT WELCOME IN OUR ‘MASTER BEDROOMS’

With the publication on January 13 of a USA Today column warning against the misuse of “culturally sensitive words”, linguistic scolds have now told us to stop using every previous word that is either marked by a link or followed by an exclamation point. It doesn’t matter if the actual derivation of the word isn’t remotely offensive in origin, let alone if the user of the word doesn’t mean to offend at all.

Well, please forgive all of us normal people (!) who refuse to prostitute ourselves (!) to the language police. Yes, of course language is important and of course we should all avoid rudeness. Still, it’s also about time people stopped running around looking for a reason to claim offense, let alone third-party observers…