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Originally Posted by HarryT
It depends why it's done, don't you think? Not using words that people genuinely find offensive is just common courtesy. What I do find crazy is when people IMAGINE offensive terms: eg, in British schools, blackboards are now called "chalk boards", which is just plain daft. Anyone who thinks that calling a board which is black a "blackboard" is going to offend someone really needs their head examining.
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Agreed, but I'm sitting in my classroom right now and the board-on-which-we-write-with-chalk is actually green, not black. Here, at least, "chalkboard" makes more sense. Are they actually black in the UK?