A day in the life of an Englishman...

[ColinEssex]

It's odd that it seems Americans use the word 'servers' as opposed to the correct term of 'waiter' or 'waitress'.

So your order sir is poodle and fries?

Thanks to Mr Trump, all the British news stations number one item are saying some Americans eat cats and dogs. I checked the Spanish and French national news who also said Americans eat cats and dogs. It must be true because Mr Trump saw it on TV. Mr Trump has reduced the USA to a world laughing stock it seems.
Col

 

[Isaac]

The thing about the "no tax on tips" idea is that tips are largely unreported and it takes a lot of IRS manpower to find the cheaters. Who do you think most of those 87,000 new IRS agents will actually be sic'd on? It won't be the rich. It will be the tranuch of taxpayers who cheat the most - people in cash businesses or those who work for tips or who claim the earned income credit.

You make a good point actually, if a lot of it is unreported anyway then maybe the no tax on tips is actually saving the government money from trying to search for the revenue in a place it won't be found usually

 

[Isaac]

Waiter and waitress are only correct if you are not politically correct. When you are politically correct, those two words are sexist and must be replaced by some new and meaningless word as a substitute. I still can't figure out how the Romance languages are going to resolve this conundrum since pretty much all their nouns have a gender variant. The politically correct now use LatinX, which if my native language were Spanish, I would be insulted by.

isn't "server" a relatively newish term in the last 20-30 years?

 

[ColinEssex]

It is new since PC took over the language. However, "server" sounds menial so it isn't used very often.

'Server' sounds like a slave, like a housekeeper or a sex worker.
Col