Nothing will prevent some language from upsetting some people in some circumstances, sometimes understandably. Back when I worked for an IT training company, o

Nothing will prevent some language from upsetting some people in some circumstances, sometimes understandably. Back when I worked for an IT training company, one of my colleagues was giving a course on Unix, and specifically on Unix processes. He was using the then as now accepted terminology of "parent", "child", "kill", "zombie" and so on when one of the trainees got up and ran out of the classroom in floods of tears. It turned out she had recently had a miscarriage.