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Barely legal: [6] A term used to market pornography featuring young people who are "barely legal" (only just reached legal age of majority or the age of consent, or both). The term fetishizes young people sexually. Bed blocker: [7] A derogatory term used to describe older people taking up hospital beds in a healthcare system.
Lists of pejorative terms for people include: List of ethnic slurs. List of ethnic slurs and epithets by ethnicity; List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names; List of religious slurs; A list of LGBT slang, including LGBT-related slurs; List of age-related terms with negative connotations; List of disability-related terms with ...
Some people consider it best to use person-first language, for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person." [1] However identity-first language, as in "autistic person" or "deaf person", is preferred by many people and organizations. [2] Language can influence individuals' perception of disabled people and disability. [3]
Image credits: darkromancegirl87 #2. They don’t ask for help, because people have let them down a lot.
Image credits: CesaroSalad #6. Clean a pan/pot/cutting board etc. while my other stuff is cooking. By the end of cooking, the only other thing I need to clean is the dish that holds the final product.
“The fact that there’s a generation that’s creating boundaries and saying, ‘I’m not going to do that,’ is irking older generations, because they’re like, ‘But I had to do that!’”
Non-standard: I could not fire because I did not have line-of-site to the target. stationary and stationery. Stationary is an adjective meaning "not moving"; stationery is a noun meaning office supplies. Standard: The train remained stationary for a few moments, before lurching forward along the track.
Anomic aphasia, also known as dysnomia, nominal aphasia, and amnesic aphasia, is a mild, fluent type of aphasia where individuals have word retrieval failures and cannot express the words they want to say (particularly nouns and verbs). [1]