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Re:PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf] by emodendroket on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:06PM (#14588498)
The oldest sense of a term is not necessarily the predominant one; nobody is going to read "moron" or "imbecile" and think of clinical terms today.
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Re:PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf] by CiPHPerCoder on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:26PM (#14588647)
> nobody

Well, almost nobody, because that's what I think of when people use these terms to degrade others.

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Re:PoC or GTFO 15 [pdf] by emodendroket on Monday June 19, 2017 @06:16PM (#14590866)
While I presume you mean to say that you think that people who go around calling others morons are the real morons, you've written it in a way that suggests you think such a thing is linked to clinical mental retardation.
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