> Whining about not being able to say certain words is about the least productive thing you can do, and makes you appear to prioritize your desire to be a jerk

> Whining about not being able to say certain words is about the least productive thing you can do, and makes you appear to prioritize your desire to be a jerk over getting things done. It's more about not wanting to "walk on eggshells". I don't want a speaker to spend >1/2 of his time prepping for the political side of a presentation. I want a speaker who spends the majority of his time on the technical details. If you want to "get stuff done", sure, sometimes you have to be more polite than you want. But the other side of the coin is that you also have to be thick-skinned. If every little thing "offends" you, then you are not going to get any work done either, and your actively preventing others from doing so.