> we all need to periodically test our alertness to changing social mores reflected in the language, to avoid our individual usage being left stranded like jetsam at some previous high-water mark. As TEd, showed, it's possible we get a real surprise now and again, and may have caused unnecessary offence in the interim.


well said.

I think the mutual admiration society thing is going very well, don't you?


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