ABSTRACT
When the special language, which is no longer useful to us, is deconstructed and changed, who will decide what is going to take its place? Language is a source of power and control and, as such, to be contested: words need to be won. The battle for political correctness is between those who feel comfortable with certain words and those who express unease. The voice of enlightened modernity promotes a liberalism which indicates that concessions are made and old usage refined. Yet this is insufficient for many political activists who feel that this is an establishment language, powerful and authoritative, and with an arrogance which denies differences of perception and intuition.
