The ironic character of the word special has been captured in the routine on Saturday Night Live, where the character called the "Church Lady" declares when she encounters something distasteful or morally repugnant, "Isn't that special!" Some of the less subtle or more idiomatic terms for disabled people such as: cripple, vegetable, dumb, deformed, retard, and gimp have generally been expunged from public conversation but emerge in various types of discourse. Cripple as a descriptor of disabled people is considered impolite, but the word has retained its metaphoric vitality, as in "The expose in the newspaper crippled the politician's campaign." The term is also used occasionally for its evocative
The ironic character of the word special has been captured in the routine on Saturday Night Live, where the character called the "Church Lady" declares when she encounters something distasteful or morally repugnant, "Isn't that special!" Some of the less subtle or more idiomatic terms for disabled people such as: cripple, vegetable, dumb, deformed, retard, and gimp have generally been expunged from public conversation but emerge in various types of discourse. Cripple as a descriptor of disabled people is considered impolite, but the word has retained its metaphoric vitality, as in "The expose in the newspaper crippled the politician's campaign." The term is also used occasionally for its evocative