Americans realise freedom with occasional bit of offence is OK - unlike us

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Americans realise freedom with occasional bit of offence is OK - unlike us

“BACK in your day” has just entered the growing list of banned phrases. According to an employment tribunal earlier this week, the expression is “barbed and unwelcome”, and harmful because it is “related to age”. It is baked into the American bloodstream that part of life is robust language, and it must not be policed That’s a shame because I have always liked the phrase. And besides, like so much of the speech-policing that goes on in this coun…