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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« on: January 12, 2014, 05:18:15 PM »

I agree. We should probably call them Congresspeople all together and congressmen/women appropriate to specific people.

Or we could call them "representatives", since that's invariably whom we're referring to when we say that. "Congresspeople" should technically refer to both houses.



Or we could call them "Members of Congress" or "MCs" for short, analogous to Britain's MPs.

That was actually how George H. W. Bush referred to himself when he was in Congress.

Or just save time and call them Cons.
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« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2014, 05:45:21 PM »

Lief, are you seriously going to argue that some lawyer would argue that penmanship doesn't cover a woman's pencraft?  (Of the various alternatives to penmanship, I like pencraft best as it is only two syllables and I have a fondness for the Anglo-Saxon -craft suffix.)
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« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2014, 11:35:43 AM »

The preceding post has been sent to the deluge.  Seldom have I seen such a leap of illogical connection between two topics as what you have just achieved here.
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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2014, 09:01:32 AM »

Using the term "illegal" instead of undocumented immigrant is disrespectful and impolite.

How is that disrespectful and impolite? I mean, they immigrated illegally, so that's the most logical thing to call them. [This] just seems ridiculous and oversensitive.

The problem lies in judging someone's existence as "illegal".

So would 'criminal' immigrant be more sensitive?  'Undocumented' makes it sound like they merely forgot to file some bureaucratic form which would have automatically approved had they done so.  'Undocumented' is too much of an understatement to be correct in any manner save that of political correctness.
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