17 - 23 September 2012

The avoidance of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalise or insult certain groups of people, i.e political correctness, does not appear to be widely practised here. The pejorative 'Neger' is bandied about liberally, first encountered by Justine at the Waldhaus for a term referring to a drink of Weiss beer mixed with cola, and this week from Caspar describing what we know as a 'dead leg'. This particular 'Neger' put him on crutches for a week.