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> (I propose a pronunciation of “auto-jipped”).

Probably want to pick another term, since that's a homonym of a racial slur.



Sigh. I had to actually go look this up. Sometimes it's just easier not to talk, because all of the skeletons of old normalized words come to light. I truly was not trying to slur anyone, and apologize if my (unlucky) attempt at humor resonated sour for anyone.


I propose adding some Unicode sign like the double turnstile [1], ⊨ (ALT+8875), which can signify "is a semantic consequence of" or "is stronger than", after a polysemic word to imply that no racial/socially derogatory connotation is to be derived from the word in that phrase, for example, "the text reads too auto-jipped⊨" or "the master⊨ branch is fubar" in a Git context.

Or perhaps an even better sign would be the negated double turnstile, ⊭, "to denote the statement 'does not entail'" [1], making it more explicit. Hence an example would look like "the text reads too auto-jipped(⊭racism)", which can be read "the text reads too auto-jipped and this word, auto-jipped, does not entail racism in this context". Ok, done, racism solved, your move David Guetta [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_turnstile

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI7oX0XxJw


That would be abused faster than you can type "gamer".




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