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Originally Posted by Unsettomati
The terms "apartment home" and "pre-owned" are simply marketing.
[The supreme irony here is that the "OMG, political correctness run amok!" crowd steadfastly maintains that people get offended too easily 'these days', yet they are so eager to be offended by political correctness that they're making up examples of it where none exists]
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I think we agree on my point that language changes based on many factors, not necessarily politics. Marketing IS an example. Often the driving force is advocacy groups who effect change. Government laws and publications (politics) may be the last to change. It's the term "politically correct" that seems to be widely misapplied recently.
It can be difficult to keep up especially if needed in professional writing. Here's the Disability Language Style Guide. I respect why this terminology has evolved yet may be miscalled
politically correct. An example given this is the Writing forum.
https://ncdj.org/style-guide/
Regarding housing, any thoughts on why the industry is trying to adopt "apartment homes" at this time??
I found it humorous coinciding with attention to unhoused.
The poor quarters of the city proper are constantly being destroyed, and the main stream of the unhoused is toward the east.
-Jack London, The People of the Abyss (1902; living in London)
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