Epithets for Makedonian Kings

[keravnos]

"African Americans"?!

Black/ Negroid/ use whatever you want. I guess it looks a bit out of place. I just wanted to off anything that would remotely come across as racial prejudice, and I went to the exact opposite direction...

-coloured- is great, thanks bovi.

[bovi]

The Norwegian current PC word is what amounts to "coloured", unless I'm already under the lavine. The word is ridiculous of course, we've all got colour and it doesn't make sense even if you would say that my own phenotype is colourless.

It's usually more useful to use their name, or nationality, but in the rare occasions where it becomes necessary to refer to a person and I know neither I prefer to use Neger, the Norwegian equivalent of Negro. People tend to react to it though, because a bunch of other people have used it in a negative context. It's hard to stay abreast of the avalanche of expressions that start out PC and become inappropriate when they've been used in negative contexts enough times.

It's the same with various words that we've iterated through that designates a homosexual or person with Down's syndrome. It's a stupid game that I see no reason to play.