Undocumented Workers Are Awesome
Robert Paul Reyes
December 31, 2006
From Reuters:
"Lake Superior State University’s 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness featured such linguistic gems as “Gitmo” for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; euphemisms such as “undocumented alien;” and such Internet-inflected synonyms as “pwn,” as in the phrase “I pwn (own) you.”
I agree with most of the words selected for banishment from the American lexicon. “Awesome” is one of the words that Lake Superior State University has selected for oblivion. My 17-year-old niece thinks that everything is so “awesome.” She sprinkles that adjective more generously than Oprah sprinkles miniature marshmallows in her hot chocolate. “Kristen did you like “Rocky Balboa”? “Uncle Robert, it was an awesome movie! For an old geezer Rocky is awesome! You are awesome for giving me the money for the movie.” Anyone over the age of 21 who uses the word “awesome” looks like an “awesome” fool.
Camp Gitmo” sounds like a Club Med paradise — not like a place where suspected terrorists are incarcerated. Journalists should avoid using the term “Camp Gitmo” for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
From Reuters:
"The list also suggested that the partners of pregnant women might save some embarrassment by avoiding, “We’re pregnant,” when only one of you is, the list said."
I’ve only heard one guy say “we’re pregnant”, and I felt like beating the Bejesus out of him. Just because some fool goes to a Lamaze class with his spouse, that doesn’t entitle him to say “we’re pregnant”.
But I take strong exception to the desire of of these eggheads to banish the term “undocumented alien”. I guess they would prefer us to use “illegal alien, but that phrase is the epitome of political incorrectness. We are all god’s children, there is no such thing as an illegal human being. And certainly Hispanics are not “alien” to the border areas where most migrate to. Need I remind my readers that those large swaths of land were stolen from Mexico? Undocumented workers should be welcomed with open arms; our economy would suffer greatly without their services.
Undocumented workers are awesome and anyone who refers to them as “illegal aliens” should be sent to Camp Gitmo.
"Lake Superior State University’s 32nd annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness featured such linguistic gems as “Gitmo” for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; euphemisms such as “undocumented alien;” and such Internet-inflected synonyms as “pwn,” as in the phrase “I pwn (own) you.”
I agree with most of the words selected for banishment from the American lexicon. “Awesome” is one of the words that Lake Superior State University has selected for oblivion. My 17-year-old niece thinks that everything is so “awesome.” She sprinkles that adjective more generously than Oprah sprinkles miniature marshmallows in her hot chocolate. “Kristen did you like “Rocky Balboa”? “Uncle Robert, it was an awesome movie! For an old geezer Rocky is awesome! You are awesome for giving me the money for the movie.” Anyone over the age of 21 who uses the word “awesome” looks like an “awesome” fool.
Camp Gitmo” sounds like a Club Med paradise — not like a place where suspected terrorists are incarcerated. Journalists should avoid using the term “Camp Gitmo” for the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
From Reuters:
"The list also suggested that the partners of pregnant women might save some embarrassment by avoiding, “We’re pregnant,” when only one of you is, the list said."
I’ve only heard one guy say “we’re pregnant”, and I felt like beating the Bejesus out of him. Just because some fool goes to a Lamaze class with his spouse, that doesn’t entitle him to say “we’re pregnant”.
But I take strong exception to the desire of of these eggheads to banish the term “undocumented alien”. I guess they would prefer us to use “illegal alien, but that phrase is the epitome of political incorrectness. We are all god’s children, there is no such thing as an illegal human being. And certainly Hispanics are not “alien” to the border areas where most migrate to. Need I remind my readers that those large swaths of land were stolen from Mexico? Undocumented workers should be welcomed with open arms; our economy would suffer greatly without their services.
Undocumented workers are awesome and anyone who refers to them as “illegal aliens” should be sent to Camp Gitmo.
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