necoandjeff wrote:

> "Louise Bremner" <dame_zumari@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1gjxvec.1syfro8vgplhcN%dame_zumari@yahoo.com...
> 
>>Kevin Gowen <kgowenNOSPAM@myfastmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>necoandjeff wrote:
>>>
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>>>>I wouldn't recommend sitting in any sort
>>>>of professional job interview anywhere in the U.S. and using the words
>>>>orient or oriental.
>>>
>>>This is the first I've heard of "orient" as being a word to be avoided.
>>
>>I assume it's an extension from the avoidance of "oriental".
> 
> 
> For lack of having any actual point to make, he was just nitpicking the fact
> that I didn't capitalize Orient.

Not at all. My comment stands whether you capitalize the word or not.

- Kevin