It is this sort of thinking that will doom the movement.  It will no more be successful than a working group in math that decides to change lowest common denominator to "height-challenged, popular denominator" to avoid the negative connotations of "low" and "common".  It ain't gonna happen.  Beliefs to the contrary are delusional.  

>DD: Why change from, "Parts of Speech?" Of course I learned them back 
>in the Depression years of the 30's, about 4th grade. Why change the 
>terminology? Just to be different and avant-garde? Oh well, lets just 
>move to German, it sounds more erudite, anyway. Wortklassen ? I like that.  

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