Re:The Euphemism Treadmill
by hungie on Thursday August 22, 2024 @12:59AM
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What was the negative consequence you experienced from that interaction (genuine)? Did you follow up afterwards to understand why someone chose both the language they did?
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Re:The Euphemism Treadmill
by DangitBobby on Thursday August 22, 2024 @02:21AM
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They were made to feel awkward in that interaction for no reason, and possibly judged unfairly.
You gotta be pretty sensitive to consider momentary awkwardness a consequence when someone blamelessly and passively corrects you.
How do you reckon that they were judged here at all? This is a level of transgression roughly equivalent to mispronouncing someones name for the first time, I can't imagine anyone else even remembering this incident aside from OP and even they may only remember because the human brain reserves 10% of its space for reliving minor faux pas.