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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 3624955" data-attributes="member: 20805">Or, given that a particular poster may not be aware that the term being used is 'less clear' than intended, perhaps all involved should try to understand where the other person is coming from and avoid assuming that your 'reader filter' view is what the poster intended?As the saying goes, when you AssUMe....After all, ten pages of posts dedicated to the sidetracks of the OP's question is a bit excessive...even for EnWorld. The last thread I participated in that went this long was/is the Meta-Troll   {which is due for a re-emergence me-thinks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> }The worst part is that there may be individual posts buried under the landslide of fuss over politically correct terminology that actually addresses the underlying problem facing the OP and others..... but digging them out would require a new thread that does not carry over the sidetracks of this one.And, missstella ...welcome to the boards!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>