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Old 11-03-2007, 07:37 PM   #25481
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Typical, everyone in Germany wants to be the Führer!
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Originally Posted by Jazhara7 View Post
One example being "Flight Attendant", instead of "Stewardess". I know Stewardesses who say "Please don't call us 'Flight Attendants', we hate that.". They say it's because of political correctness, but I see nothing wrong with "Stewardess". I agree it's just rude to call them "Saftschubsen" [literally "Juice pushers", because they push those trolleys with the drinks through the plane], but this is just silly.).
In Britain, when we wish to disparage air hostesses, we refer to them as "trolley dollies."
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