Consider the term "American indebtedness".
Consider the term "hedge fund".
Consider the term "mother tongue".
The scientists don't consider it a planet -- in fact, they don't even consider the term "planet" scientifically useful.
Yet, incredibly, we are expected today as Syrians to consider the term "resistance" as the exclusive property of the Assad regime.
History, social science, and common sense have made it increasingly difficult not to consider the term "natural disaster" as a linguistic diversion, one that carries a hint of absolution.
In particular, no one seems willing to touch on the issue of "untouchability", despite the fact that 90% of the poorest of the poor in India are Dalits (who consider the term "untouchable" offensive).
"This stuff is real," he says.Similarly, Max Thiercy, head of development at Albert, a French firm that produces natural-language search software, also avoids the term AI. "I consider the term a bit obsolete," he says.
As you may know, the language around the immigration debate is somewhat of a sensitive issue, and many people would consider the term, when used a noun or short-hand for "illegal immigrant," offensive.
Public opinion researchers have found that voters do not consider the term particularly reassuring, perhaps because past stimuli have not proved to be personally rewarding or maybe because the phrase is just too Pavlovian in trying to elicit a predetermined economic response.
