Paul quite true and funny.
Have been held prisoner at far too many lectures or information givers.
W#$k W*&d bingo was our name for much of it.
However the first time a middle aged gent said *so they say*, and started throwing his hands around moving three fingers on each hand? almost P%#D myself laughing.
We use and abuse words, if only this country had the front to confront the silly ways we all fall for rabbit words to try to impress

out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Hence the vileness that comes much from entertainment industry and copied by kids. Also very common for vileness to come from National Broadcasters. One of those things unwritten on duty statements but obviously held in high regard.

<<There are many terms which today are no longer acceptable
to most people - and are considered "outmoded."
Terms such as "n*gger" referring to African negroes>>

Not so Foxy, my Brazilian friend tells me that the N word is a term that is used/worn by Brazilians of African descent with a great deal of pride and acceptance.

So you see it is not as cut and dried --black and white-- as those PC text books of yours have had you believe.

PS: On Verbally Offencius

I reckon that if some of the skits of SBSs "Legally Brown"were to be edited and have the word "white(s)" replaced with any non-white groups name, there would all hell to pay. The PC brigade would --regardless of the skits intent --be calling for it to be banned & its producers to be sacked (after they had first been hanged, drawn and quartered)

This young man lays out his observations of why some words are controversial even though they're not:
White men are people too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJI7MYMQTbA

Dear SPQR,

Actually those derogatory words were taken from a
social history text-book for high
school students and they refer to the meaning
of the words in the English language. Not in
Portugese, the language of Brazil.

BTW: I'm not a great fan of
political correctness - having worked
through a re-structuring process of libraries
in Victoria under the Kennett government ,
where "buzz words" came into vogue, and
political correctness was the "flovour of the
month.

Of course you'll always find a few people
to whom all sorts of words are quite OK -
however these outmoded words are no longer acceptable
to most people speaking English.