• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    Just don’t use it to refer to people and you’re golden. There are many slurs that are also legitimate scientific terms, like how fag(g)ot is a bundle of sticks, or how in physics you have the Advanced and the Retarded Green’s functions.

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      6 months ago

      fag(g)ot is a bundle of sticks

      Fagot is also what a bassoon is called in Danish, Dutch, Spanish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Slovak and Czech, for some reason lol.

      Not sure about the pronunciation, though, even though the first of those is my native language 😄