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Default What words or phrases annoy you?

On 06/12/2021 04:25 AM, NY wrote:
"Rod Speed" wrote in message
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Back in the day, Moron, Imbecile and Idiot had specific IQ ranges
to be
classified as such...

I sort of knew that, but I wonder what they do now.


Intellectually disabled mostly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_disability


I've not heard that term. The usual euphemism is "learning difficulties"
which tends to refer to people who are unkindly and humorously referred
to as "the hard of thinking" as an extension of the similar derivation
"the hard of hearing".


In this group the euphemism is '****ing moron'.