>>Can't hear them mentioned anywhere. They have probably all been cut down to make room for rain forests.
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>>Does anyone know when did the word "jungle" become politically incorrect?
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>When the tree huggers needed a politically appealing term to better promote there cause.

Probably the same guys who wouldn't pass the first question in a Real Tree Hugger Test: do you like mud?

>Just like --
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>Hobos -- homeless
>Swamps -- wetlands

This way of never calling a bean a bean rings a lot of bells in my head. Our socialist handguides (that was the term for the guys with power) invented all sorts of words to describe old stuff:

peasant - individual agricultural manufacturer
teacher - lecturer of class curriculum
worker - executor of tasks and labor assignments
cops - organs of order
food - nutritional items
(self-managed) enterprise - organisation of associated labor (you could fail an exam on economy if you mentioned word "enterprise")

But then, I'm seeing much of the same technology of language manipulation here. Nobody's a worker at Walmart. They're associates. I wonder if Walmart ever defined itself as a "association of workers".

We've been through that 30 years ago, and as the intellectuals of then (the "inteligentsia") concluded,
1. you can't have a full sentence emerge from an empty head
2. whoever twists the language, has an agenda.