randy_byers: (2009-05-10)
randy_byers ([personal profile] randy_byers) wrote2010-02-12 08:27 am
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I never knew that "ortho" meant "correct". Thus "orthodoxy" means "correct belief". So "politically correct" could be understood as another way to say "orthodox", which is probably pretty close to how it was used in the Marxist-Leninist context, before it became a libertarian pejorative.

[identity profile] voidampersand.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
Orthopedics has to be setting bones at right angles, orthogonally.

[identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com 2010-02-13 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Now there's a scary thought!