> Words are powerful and stir up emotions. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Yes, words do stir up emotions, but well-adjust

> Words are powerful and stir up emotions. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. Yes, words do stir up emotions, but well-adjusted adults learn as children to control and channel their emotions in healthy, constructive ways, rather than permitting themselves to be debilitated by seeing a perfectly correct word used perfectly correctly — and inoffensively. > In this context, someone stigmatized as "slow" or "dumb" by society, reading a sentence with the word "retard" in it has to deal with bad memories from the past rather than understanding the concepts in this sentence. Someone so emotionally fragile would be offended even by reading your sentence about the original sentence!