You know, I never really thought I'd see people protesting over the PR of potatoes... in London no less... But they've taken to the streets and are demanding the dictionary be amended...
I can understand that they are part of a potato growing lobby that feels the term is hurting their sales... It might seem reasonable that their request be to have the term restricted in sales & marketing campaigns... But to have the term removed from the dictionary? Like it isn't a real word?
Come on people... It's a real word and it's one that people are going to use in their daily lives whether you like it or not. Dictionaries include curse words that aren't considered properly acceptable and slang terms that aren't exceptionally kind. What have we come to when we start banning words from the dictionary simply because we don't like them?
I can get behind you on wanting to promote your product but don't mess around with bans that will get us all into trouble later. Have a little forethought man...
Posted by Princess Cat at June 20, 2005 10:16 PM @ 10:16 PM in SSDD // PermalinkLOL!!!!
I think I will start my GET RID OF THE LETTER X campaign!
Posted by: Rachel Ann at June 21, 2005 02:42 AM