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Thread #116129 Message #2493582
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
14-Nov-08 - 07:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Free to good home songbook Irish Scotch
Subject: RE: BS: Free to good home songbook Irish Scotch
That's an interesting thing, Goatfell, and deserves a whole thread of it's own. In fact I think there has been a few of them. When do you change something so it does not offend? I think offensive terms for black people or for Jews should definitely be excluded and by that rule so should ofensive terms for any other colour, creed or race. But other terms seem OK - Remember the Australian cricket umpire joke? "Which of you bastards has been calling these bastards bastards?"
It can be a tough call and this book in particular, because of it's title, should maybe keep the offensive term - How else could anyone else have looked it up on the internet if we didn't know the correct title? Anyhow, like I said, probably a whole different topic but I am not going to start it up again!