No, certain words and phonemes are not unutterable. Their utterance can be used as excuse to hurt you, or they can be celebrated, depending on whether you are i

No, certain words and phonemes are not unutterable. Their utterance can be used as excuse to hurt you, or they can be celebrated, depending on whether you are in the good graces of the thuggish management class that has taken over so many of our institutions. So if you are Donald McNeil and these thugs decide they don’t like you, and quote someone else using a forbidden word, that can be used to fire you¹. The fact that other people are allowed to use the same word dozens of times in a single article shows that it is not the word itself that is prohibited. [1] https://reason.com/2021/02/06/its-official-linguistic-intent-no-longer-matters-at-the-new-york-times/ https://reason.com/2021/02/06/its-official-linguistic-intent...