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Q: What's wrong with this statement:
"All the villagers were killed,.and the women and children were taken away as slaves".
Just seeing the way people see the world...
The women and children aren't villagers?
icnif77:
I read that somewhere.
I'd say in your c&p sentence word 'male'-villagers is missing. I think article was in 'The Guardian' or one of the 'Zero'-s article about Syria or ISIS strong-hold there some 10 days ago.
somebody white washed the comments, there used to be more posted.
Blondie_:
maybe they mentioned Bieber and others on the 'no-no' list 
ambivalentmace:
they use a term for millennials that are too sensitive "snowflakes", but I think the sensitive snowflakes are in China, especially lately.
Blondie_:
this is not the only recent post that has had comments 'harmonised'.
someone is just doing some 'busy work' - probably a new admin
I had a comment harmonised, they corrected my correct spelling with incorrect spelling ......lol
icnif77:
'It wasn't me ... .' 
You know that song ....
, butT.. I spotted many of the Native Englishers her-oo need spelling corrections.
wow,, they wiped out this post,, or whatever u call it,,, haha,, truth hurts, don't it u fkn loser! go give 11 a knob-job, then bend over for the Big One from D. Trump*
*directed towards the Nazi who runs around suppressing free-thought, free-speech.
icnif77:
We should have day or week of 'Everybody Log-Off' and just visit web site every week once ...
for a minute.
... or 'Give-Me-All-My-Rain-Coats-NOW!' movement .... .
I was watching 'Gandhi' ... I am for non-violence
An excellent question shining.
The meaning of words. Their order, and how we read them.
Villagers, without location of said village, immediately makes us think of the Vietnam war. That is the location we mostly associate the word villager with. My Lai in Vietnam. Viet kong... gooks... geeks ... charlie... whatever.. It's about de-humanisation of people. the words don't matter. It's how they are used.
I was reading about the Falklands war a few weeks back, and apparently Maggie was on the verge of putting the BBC under emergency Government control. She was not happy that the BBC declared itself neutral. I remember the reporting on TV. Britain this, Argentina that... sort of like a scoreboard.
Maggie wanted headlines such as " Come on lads, stick up up the Argies arse".
Maggie wanted to resurrect the Hun, the Bosch, Kooks.. She wanted to dehumanise.
The BBC however, recognised that most Argentinian forces were conscripts. And they refused to do what Maggie wanted.
The Falkland islanders who died, I think maybe 3 or 4, they were described as Islanders.
But they actually lived in villages. So technically they were villagers.
Villagers or Islanders. Migrants or expats.
An excellent question.
