From the ABC:
Federal Government-selected experts want people to start using the word "dryness" to describe Australia's worst drought in a century.
The word "drought" makes farmers feel bad, says the Government's hand-picked Drought Policy Review Expert Social Panel.
The politically-correct push also aims to make farmers accept that drier weather is here to stay, and is not a temporary crisis, the panel's newly released report said.
"Words like drought ... have negative connotations for farm families," the report said."There needs to be a new national approach to living with dryness, as we prefer to call it, rather than dealing with drought."
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For some reason the phrase "dead parrot" springs to mind.
Yes, the world needs more euphemisms. I remember when a "economic downturn" was called a recession. If they have a fire because of the dryness would it be called an extreme flame event?
ReplyDeleteThey called them recessions to avoid calling them depressions thenwe had economic downturns and now "soft" or "hard" landings
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