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>cripple may be insensitive, use person with a limp instead Hard to tell if this project is parody or authentic.
by iskander 11y ago
>cripple may be insensitive, use person with a limp instead
Hard to tell if this project is parody or authentic.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoEr, authentic, surely? That's a word that people with disabilities may bitterly detest, as it is frequently used to mock them.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoOf course, though without context for the example, it's hard to understand if it really is being used as a noun (which seems clearly offensive) or a verb, which doesn't immediately seem offensive to me, at least (like "We shipped a crippled version of the product as a trial").
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoAh yes, that's true. I don't know if 'crippled' as an adjective applied to a non-person would cause people distress, I assume not (though I'd err on the side of caution). Alas, that's the kind of thing that automated tools will inevitably make mistakes about. It's not doing NLP.
- cosmorocket 11y agoYour comment made my NLP parsing project upset and depressed. Hardly I will be able to make it pass tests until tomorrow now. Thanks.