[rfk-dev] folding in NKIs from the inform edition

[Jeremy Penner]

In general, you should not take advice about what is offensive to people 
from anyone who uses the phrase "politically correct."

"Tranny" referring to transgendered people is indeed taken as a 
significantly offensive slur.  In the context of your friend's joke, 
it's fine; he's obviously referring to a transmission.  As an NKI, that 
context is missing.  It should go.

Jeremy

On 2012-10-31 8:27 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> When I made my Inform6 edition of robotfindskitten, I roughly doubled the
> count of NKIs as were inherited from the standard NKI list.  Would there
> be any objection to folding those into the mix?  One potential problem
> pointed out to me is this one:
>
>     "Clang, clang, clang goes the tranny!"
>
> This is a fractured lyric from "The Trolley Song" from the film "Meet Me
> in St Louis".  I was driving somewhere with a friend of mine when my foot
> slipped off the clutch and the transmission made a clanging sound.  A
> friend who was with me at the time sang this fractured lyric to joke about
> my mistake.
>
> The concern pointed out to me is that this usage of the word "tranny"
> might be offensive to transexuals.  This same friend of mine is fairly
> well-learned in the GLBT lore, so I asked him.  He replied with a confused
> "Well, it depends on how politically correct you want to be.".  So, here's
> the question: should it stay or go?
>