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I had to look this up, but I guess you meant ableist language [1], i.e. you're opposed to the use of the word "lame" here.

To me, not being a native speaker but having been part of the European demo scene 30 years ago, "lame" in the context of computing never means anything other than the opposite of cool, basically [2] which I of course assume is the meaning intended here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ableism [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamer



I had the same problem (also not native speaker). I first thought the problem here was the use of the word "war".

So people, please be charitable. Connotations of words differ, and English is spoken and written by people all over the world with different backgrounds :)




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