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Words are to be used whenever (and as often as) they are appropriate.

Outside of slurs, blanket avoidance of words mostly just adds unnecessary obfuscation.



I agree. In this case, we felt that use of a particular word in a particular context reflected a mindset that many of us were trying to avoid. And, it became a fun game.




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