RickH wrote:reohn2 wrote:I'm havingnthe same problem as MickF,I can't read the article and I do have a TV licence
Me too on both counts.
well this is all strange. maybe its Woken Test whether you can read it or not. You just not woken enough
RickH wrote:reohn2 wrote:I'm havingnthe same problem as MickF,I can't read the article and I do have a TV licence
Me too on both counts.
Audax67 wrote:I did know what it meant but I answered dunno because such perversions of English shouldn't be given house room.
Vorpal wrote:Audax67 wrote:I did know what it meant but I answered dunno because such perversions of English shouldn't be given house room.
Perversions of English? No slang is allowed? Or is it just the slang of American POC that is a perversion?
Oldjohnw wrote:I thought it originally meant being socially aware, bit was then used as a perjoritive term against people who were socially aware.
Like politically correct and, I guess, many other terms.
Vorpal wrote:Audax67 wrote:I did know what it meant but I answered dunno because such perversions of English shouldn't be given house room.
Perversions of English? No slang is allowed? Or is it just the slang of American POC that is a perversion?
pete75 wrote:Vorpal wrote:Audax67 wrote:I did know what it meant but I answered dunno because such perversions of English shouldn't be given house room.
Perversions of English? No slang is allowed? Or is it just the slang of American POC that is a perversion?
No neither should a perversion of the language like dunno.
What is a POC?
Vorpal wrote:pete75 wrote:Vorpal wrote:Perversions of English? No slang is allowed? Or is it just the slang of American POC that is a perversion?
No neither should a perversion of the language like dunno.
What is a POC?
Person of colour
Vorpal wrote:POC is what most of my minority friends and family members use on social media. Some still us 'black' or 'African American', but POC also includes other non-whites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
pete75 wrote:Vorpal wrote:POC is what most of my minority friends and family members use on social media. Some still us 'black' or 'African American', but POC also includes other non-whites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
Being black is nothing to be ashamed of so why use a stupid euphemism?
Vorpal wrote:pete75 wrote:Vorpal wrote:POC is what most of my minority friends and family members use on social media. Some still us 'black' or 'African American', but POC also includes other non-whites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color
Being black is nothing to be ashamed of so why use a stupid euphemism?
POC also includes other non-whites (i.e. first people, folks of Asian or Middle Eastern descent, etc.)
I don't think that being black is anything to be ashamed of, and I don't think that my friends & family think it's anything to be ashamed of.