Semantics
Posted by Chief Oddball in the evening on February 17th, 2005From a letter to the editor in today’s local paper:
Once again you’ve used the word “elderly” to describe a woman who is only 64 years old. If you use elderly for people who are 60-plus, what in the world are you going to call those who are 80, or the ever-increasing population who are 90 or 100?
Uhh…fossilized?
