‘Nobody’s fat or old in Bath Mr Pickwick.’ Said Charles Dickens, nor anywhere else now.
Our fat old woman went out, agoraphobics can’t go out, so that would make all those cry.
One good eye is very insensitive for the visually impaired and all other classes of disability, physical and mental. All qualifications of vision, hearing, mobility etc are negative, even, or especially ‘challenged.’ They say that other senses are improved with the loss of another. Is it time to qualify the old phrases with a positive message?. .... enhanced or superior. In fact the use of opposites could be mandatory in the enhancement of self-esteem legislation of the new Century.
We can’t say cow without thinking of Alf Garnett, who was not sensitive.
Pig is either a chauvinist, or worse, a Police Officer.
The word chicken upsets the naturally timorous. And so on.
Colours are not allowed, so many of them are doubtful. We are left with Buff, with numbers. Buff 39 is mauve etc. The word colour itself will be replaced by hue.
Let us now re-write our example.
A beautiful slim young girl with perfect eyesight was in a non-urban situation, without benefit of roof. A milk-providing quadruped gladdened her keen eyes of Hue Buff 26. Reflected in them was also a clean eating, cloven hoofed, spotless creature, she marvelled at the wonder of it’s lovely sparse hair. A fearless edible ova-producing bird, defied the world, it was a Rhode Island Buff 41.
Peter
