For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.

They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.

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    4 days ago

    yeah, it’s almost as if language is an evolving thing….
    but fuck that noise, i only accept definitions from the 1876 edition of Merrium-Webster… all other usages are wrong.
    (i do seriously had when the nounify a verb like “cringe” or making “sus” mean anything at all bad…