Agreed, but more importantly: I would never use that word unless I was trying to start a fight. And trying to use the word to stop a fight is just backwards. (

Agreed, but more importantly: I would never use that word unless I was trying to start a fight. And trying to use the word to stop a fight is just backwards. (Like all rules for writing, this one has exceptions: For example, if it's in the service of a great pun, like: Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon well, that's different.)