The PC brigade have in the past got a few things right, yet not many. But even when they get it right some people are so thick it just does not sink home.
What i am refering to is the changing of the awful names given to the disabled. No longer is it correct to use the words spastic, mongole and dumb [as in deaf and dumb].
However the latter seems to still be spoken quite often. I have noticed this due to my eldest daughter being deaf. She is certainly not dumb in any way either mentaly or verbaly even if many people find it hard to understand her.
The most annoying example was a neighbour of ours who insisted in calling her deaf and dumb in almost every conversation. This was astonishing as he had two VERY severly mentaly hadicapped children. For two years i put up with it pointing out to him that the word dumb was not acceptable.
The final straw came when he tried to matchmake my daughter to a deaf man some twenty years older than her. I saw red. My daughter is gorgeous and did not want an old man by her standards. The neighbour took great delight in saying but they are both deaf and dumb and who else could she get.
I replied, no sorry i screamed "well who could you find for your two mongoles" Would you believe he was most offended by my comments. Bloody thick idiot.