Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Yiddish and Disabled

Today the physically disabled folks have many opportunities to partake in activities within the general society. The computer has opened avenues to be part of the mainstream despite of a physical disability. On Der Bay's Yiddish website the link is: http://www.derbay.org/disabled.html

The links and information are for the visually impaired and the hard of hearing. Being politically correct means that the words we used growing up are not in vogue. I guess I'm a little old-fashioned, but I must say some of them are more favorable.

Yesterday I heard a good one. Instead of Low Income Housing, the news term is Affordable Housing. Everyone wants to live within one's means, so I guess that is a good one. A tough one is a HUMAN. We don’t want to say huwoman and I don’t think a huperson is any better.

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