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Default What words or phrases annoy you?



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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"


That's more for kids rather than adults.

which tends to refer to people who are unkindly and humorously referred to
as "the hard of thinking"


That's more of an insult.

as an extension of the similar derivation "the hard of hearing".