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Thread #173907   Message #4218879
Posted By: meself
11-Mar-25 - 03:48 PM
Thread Name: Is 'black as any moor' acceptable?
Subject: RE: Is 'black as any moor' acceptable?
A common way of dealing with these possibly-but-not-necessarily offensive terms, ideas, etc., is to make the casual proviso that "some of the language may not be politically correct", or words to that effect. You will then, however, for better or for worse, have the audience listening intently for whatever it is that's (possibly) "politically incorrect", so you may wish you hadn't said anything about it ... !