Damn, my knee-jerk reaction got the best of me and I missed the full context of that what discussed and replied without nuance. Since I cannot edit anymore, le

Damn, my knee-jerk reaction got the best of me and I missed the full context of that what discussed and replied without nuance. Since I cannot edit anymore, let me correct it here: In the country where I work, using such words in a professional context, even for illustrative purpose such as described in the article, would be rather uncommon, would definitely feels weird and at least raise a few eyebrows. But I have to say I don't think it would usually result in immediate outrage and for the speaker to be fired (I can still see this happening, but it would definitely be the odd occurrence). It would probably be considered more of a well-intended-but-slightly-misguided attempt. So we definitely have such taboo words outside the US, but maybe they are not as strong a taboo here...