On 7/24/20 1:15 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote: > You think it is not only unavoidable, but also fine if over time we have to periodically > change the word we use for the same subject because word N-1 has accumulated to much > negative connotations ? I'm old enough to have seen these sorts of acceptability shifts happen in English a few times, and my sense is that it happens roughly once or twice per generation. I think that argument is a red herring. Melinda -- Melinda Shore melinda.shore@xxxxxxxxx Software longa, hardware brevis
