Time Magazine Needed To Dumb Down the Word Rejigger Lest They Be Accused Of Racism
The editor that agreed to make the change is just an idiot!
Here is what the headline originally looked like:
And as it was picked up by Yahoo:
and now look how Time has since changed this.
You see, if you look in an urban dictionary, Jig is a noun, short for jigaboo black person..But wait, Time used the word rejigger, which means:
Main Entry: re·jig·ger
Pronunciation: \(ˌ)rē-ˈji-gər\
Function: transitive verb
Etymology: re- + 3jigger
Date: 1942
: alter rearrange
While at the Merriam-Webster’s site, I looked up jig:
Main Entry: 1jig
Pronunciation: \ˈjig\
Function: noun
Etymology: perhaps from Middle French giguer to frolic, from gigue fiddle, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German gīga fiddle; akin to Old Norse geiga to turn aside
Date: circa 1560
1 a: any of several lively springy dances in triple rhythm b: music to which a jig may be danced
2: trick game “used chiefly in the phrase the jig is up
3 a: any of several fishing devices that are jerked up and down or drawn through the water b: a device used to maintain mechanically the correct positional relationship between a piece of work and the tool or between parts of work during assembly c: a device in which crushed ore is concentrated or coal is cleaned by agitating in water
” in jig time : in a short time : quickly
H/T to memeorandum
January 27, 2008 - 08:16 PM on January 27th, 2008
Last I checked a Jig was an Irish Dance.
January 27, 2008 - 11:39 PM on January 27th, 2008
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Tis the PC of our Times.
January 28, 2008 - 06:53 AM on January 28th, 2008
I haven’t taken Time since Strobe Talbot published his idiotcy about having no nations.