“You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs anymore, it's speciesist . You have to call them pre-petroleum persons.” (Pratchett, 1996) Even the simplest of tools, when abused, produce grave results. Euphemism is not a simple tool; it is one of the most powerful weapons in the linguistic arsenal. Political correctness, in linguistic terms, is a subset of euphemism. The most vocal proponents of political correctness purport that words affect thoughts. They argue that when the offensive words are suppressed, the thought process associated with those words will wither out from consciousness, though the current linguistic research does not support such claims. In most cases, the intent of not offending others is benign, but like any tool, it can also be abused by malevolent agencies to dissemble and suppress important words out of a discussion for their benefits in the name of political correctness and euphemisms. This shifts the focus from the real issue to the words
When you try to run the program, i has an error staring that xrange is not defined. Could you give me a fix for this?
ReplyDeleteHello.. This code was written long ago with python 2.x compiler.
DeleteI guess you're using python 3.x, where xrange is not used anymore. So to fix it, change all xrange to range.
Thanks for notifying. I'll modify the codebase as well when I get time..
Can you write this game with c++?
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