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Wonder what to use for MongoDb. "Mongo" is a nasty slur for a person with Downs syndrome in Norwegian

I was told mongoloid was the politically correct term to use instead of retarded lol

Personally I always thought it sounded more demeaning, kinda sounds like some less developed homosapian ancestor, almost like calling someone a neanderthal

I don't think that term has been appropriate for a long time... Wikipedia seems to indicate similarly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_idiocy

I saw someone on Rocket League use that term as an insult. When I said it was a slur, they said it just meant "stupid", heh. No, buddy... there's a lot more to it than that.

There was a lot more to it than that. Insults tend to gradually lose their meaning until they just become synonyms for "stupid". E.g. "idiot", "dumb", "gay".

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