People get super defensive about every single word they say, like some single solitary slight substitution squarely suggests stifling someone's soul, striking substance seemingly senselessly. But it's not substance: it's simply a choice of word that some/many make without even really considering it. It's a non-issue that suddenly becomes a big damn problem suppressing people's freeze peach for no good reason I recall ever seeing.

"Hey, could you not say [word] [/so much] maybe? There are [better/other] choices" is apparently equivalent in personal offensiveness to "You're now Harold, a Scientologist whose favourite colour is green and your greatest dream/goal in life is to become a glider pilot."

[–] LaggyKar 4 points 1 year ago

Where it really becomes an issue is when they find it so offensive they decide to break things. For example, a function was added to the Debian Buildbot packages so that updating the packages would artificially fail if it detected the worker basedir was in the slaves directory (which used to be the default). Forcing everyone using it to figure out what was wrong and move the directory. Because the Debian project apparently found a file path so offensive they had to ban it, even on your own private server.