It has been widely reported that New Orleans Police Spokesman Marlon DeFillo has spoken out against the term “looting” being applied to NOPD officers who were caught in the act of taking  non-food goods in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Instead, DeFillo is championing the use of the term “appropriation of non-essential items.”

As a highly trained linguistic expert, Mr. DeFillo has the capability to cut through simplistic, pedestrian and accurate terms such as “looting” and replace them with less incriminating, more important sounding and vague ones. We here at TNOYF know how hard it can be for the average person to wade through the morass of technical terminology that flows so freely from skilled craftsmen such as DeFillo.

And so as a public service to our readers, we present the following incomplete guide to post-Hurricane Katrina terminology:      

“Republican-generated, minority-targeting, evil death winds.” - Hurricane

“Survival-related ingestion of the dermis, appendages and vital organs.” - Cannibalism

“Post-incident, stress-necessitated, decompression zone.” - Las Vegas

“Highly-pigmented, disaster-exploitive, mediaphiles.” - Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel, Jesse Jackson & Louis Farrakhan

“Nautically-challenged, egotistically over-endowed, faux-patriot.” - Sean Penn

We hope this has been a help, and we will bring you updates as they become available.

Thanks to Mudville, OTB & Basil. This post is also available at Blogger News Network. 

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