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> "jewed" or "retard" are not appropriate professional words

Real, professional example from the automotive world: 'the knock sensor can retard the ignition timing'

Is that still okay to say?



I'm assuming both you and the GP know that the 'retard' that's clearly offensive is the noun 'retard' referring to a person.


Which is the whole point. The offense is the context, not the word itself.


The explicit purpose of a list like this is to suggest that no, it isn't, for any context. That is the banality of it.




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