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Google would probably fine you for using the word "retard". /s

• version_five 5y ago
  There is a story about a public figure having to resign for using the word niggardly which derives from an old Norse root (same as "niggling") and has nothing to do with the offensive near-homonym. This is not some principled desire not to offend, it's people looking for something to get upset about. It would not surprise me at all if one could find a real example of "retarded" in its original sense being proscribed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_niggardly https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word...