TY - JOUR T1 - Public words and political correctness JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 807 LP - 807 VL - 54 IS - 507 AU - Neville Goodman Y1 - 2004/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/54/507/807.2.abstract N2 - Who owns one's conversation? I'd take a dim view if someone listened at my door and then broadcast what I'd said. Not that I am likely to say anything that anyone would want to know about. But I was on a train when the woman directly behind me started a loud conversation with her literary agent about a book proposal. To begin with it was merely a nuisance. Then it became interesting when she announced that it would be a follow-on to her book … ER -