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I always thought that the word "profane" meant something like "blasphemous" - religious based swears like "God's eyes!!" I'm finding it jarring that Trump's latest execrable outburst is being routinely described as "profanity." Should I file this away with my objection to people using "fraught" as a standalone adjective - a distinction that nobody but me even remembers?

I'm afraid I can't do anything about the ridiculous fact that I find this question much more compelling than whether or not it's okay for the New York Times to print the word "shithole."

Crossposts: https://dreamshark.livejournal.com/467694.html

I must admit that while reading an older baby-development book I started to have some sympathy for the modern concept of alternating "he" and "she" in such books. I was reading bits aloud to the new parents and found that swapping "she" for "he" made it seem a lot more relevant to the new parents of a baby girl.

But here's how to carry things too far.

"When your baby is rear-facing, adjust the straps so they're threaded through the slots at or below his shoulder level, says Jennifer Stockburger, vehicle and child-safety program manager at Consumer Reports' Auto Test Center, in East Haddam, Connecticut. Otherwise, she could be injured or ejected in a crash."

What, the baby boy is okay but JENNIFER might be injured? Huh? Really, people, I think it's okay to stick with a single pronoun for at least the duration of a thought. If you can't stomach that, go back to the Victorian English convention and just say "it."

I made a post in an online forum regarding the necessity of having moderators that are willing to "nip [trolling behavior] in the bud." This triggered an auto-censor that replaced "nip" with "**bleep**". WTF?

Does "nip in the bud" have some filthy slang meaning that I wasn't aware of?

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