“Aspergic” is clearly the correct form of the word. As in,
“Rachael Ray is Aspergic.”
“I am allergic to Aspergics.”
and for the implied syllogism: “Therefore, I am allergic to Rachael Ray.”
I crazy.
Until next year when that isn’t PC. :rolleyes:
I have problems with “I had a surgery” … you mean you have an actual operating theater in your house? How cool is that … I have had operations, or I have had surgical procedures, but I don’t have an operating theater in my house [though with the ability mrAru has of bunging himself up around the farm one could be useful.
And yes, I know that language is an ever changing ‘live’ thing … but to me a surgery is either a British doctor’s office, or the place one conducts a surgical procedure, also called an operation.
Or if you don’t want autism to be considered a disability, you’d say “I want to see her skills of an autist.”
People with accents different than your own may still be (and are, in the quoted example) saying the words correctly. You’re not hearing it properly.
The ass-meat is the best part of the cow for making burgers.
You and me, both, baby! Wanna get it on?
The OP is so OCD.
In English, when there’s no adjective available, people often use the noun as an adjective. Don’t like it? Stop using English.
I haven’t seen any real change in so-called PC language about people with disabilities in the last 20 years. In 1992 I went through a training for a job, and I just went through one at my new job, and they were exactly the same. People first language, don’t say “the blind,” etc. It’s all common sense and easy to remember.
Guys, it’s called metonymy - where one part or characteristic stands in for the whole - and it’s a perfectly valid form of metaphor and figure of speech. We do it all the time in other circumstances. “He’s out for a piece of ass”, "The White House today refused to speculate . . . ", and “all hands on deck” are other versions. John Mace is completely right pointing out that we often say a person is an asshole, a dick, a cunt, or some other body part, in an effort to assign negative characteristics to them. It’s the same thing, except without the negativity.
I frequently say “I’m ADD,” because it instantly communicates the information I want to give, it’s less formal than saying “I have ADD,” and I can modify more easily in a less formal, slightly humorous way when I say “I’m especially ADD today, guys.” As there are times when I feel like my ADD lives in a big, blinking neon sign with chaser lights suspended over my head, it feels more truthful to recognize its immediacy by saying “I am” instead of “I have”.
Neither ADD nor Asperger’s Syndrome has been in the public awareness long enough to really have settled on a preferred usage. It will eventually. Doctors and other professionals will continue to speak of the disorders in formal medical terminology, the rest of us will find a usage that falls off the lips more easily than the others and conveys the meaning we wish, and someone somewhere will be annoyed with it. It’s the Circle of Life.
Or do you guys correct people when they say they’re nauseous by telling them they’re actually nauseated?
Us crazy.
Of course not, nauseous is an adjective, meaning “afflicted with nausea”. On the other hand, no one goes around saying “I’m especially nausea today, guys”, “She’s nausea”, and so forth.
LOL.
THANK YOU! You just saved me a long post. So I’ll shorten it: I hear what they (people who want us to use the Sally has ____, rather than Sally’s ____ form) are saying, but I don’t buy it. Anyone smart enough to anticipate the psychological implications of being depersonalized by a reference to a disease process is smart enough to understand a figure of fucking speech. When I’m talking to a 4 year old or a person incapable of anything but concrete speech, I’m more word-aware, but the rest of us can handle it because we’re not stupid delicate snowflakes.
Heh. You new here? Of COURSE this has been bickered about on the SDMB! More than once.
Y U mad ?
Huh. Oh well, looks like the barbarians are winning another round, then.
Ahh yes, silly me, not knowing that liberry is an accepted standard English pronunciation of my profession and place of work. I am shamed. :rolleyes:
I’ve lived in the south all my life, and can in fact speak with various southern accents at will, and I know what people are saying. I don’t have problems with people with hugely distorted accents or regionalisms - I wouldn’t fault someone speaking Gullah for saying “dey” for they.
These are people who speak otherwise perfectly intelligible standard English, saying (and quite often spelling) words incorrectly because they don’t know what they are, and they’re getting as close as they can without bothering to check with someone as to the correct spelling or pronunciation.
If there is a medical condition that you are worried about, it seems to me that you would bother to find out the correct definition, pronunciation, and spelling of said condition in standard English usage, in order to find the best and most reliable information about it. To not do so indicates laziness or nonchalance, and I really don’t think that’s the impression people are trying to give.
/hijack
I work with autistic adults at our day programs for the last 19 years.
My youngest son is autistic.
No complaints, no PC issues thus far.