"Political correctness, politically correct and P.C. are terms that commonly refer to a social movement to redress, primarily by the use of language real alleged discrimination on the basis of race, gender or other criteria, " Ms. Houry Kazandjian said, who is an English teacher for more than twenty years. Political correctness is usually applied to terms describing race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and disability status (physical or mental ).The terms that are politically incorrect can be divided into two parts: offensive words or descriptive words.

Some words are simply offensive and have no other purpose than to degrade the person on whom the label is put. For example, Niger has no legitimate function, it is used only to shock or offend. Another example is the word disabled. We can substitute politically correct terminology for terminology considered offensive by many by substituting...