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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (27119)8/24/2006 8:53:47 PM
From: mph  Read Replies (1) of 541624
 
Well, they used the phrase "and the winner is..." for decades before changing to "and the Oscar goes to..."

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I get the point about art, but the reality is that Oscar is a business.

I used the Oscars as an illustration of the more recent attitude (which I consider a PC approach) to the very notion of competition and winners/losers. Since the Academy itself used the term "winner" for eons, I defer to its own characterization. The change in language reflects nothing more than today's hypersensitivity and full on embrace of all things PC. JMO
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