Retarded != Stupid (was Re: Why do people dislike Dolphin?)

[Derek Broughton]

p.daniels wrote:

> On Monday November 3 2008 08:33:45 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Because D3lphin was pretty much utterly retarded compared to Konqueror.
> 
> Not to be a nitpicker and not to call you particularly out, Derek, because
> I've seen other people use it on this list as well, but could we please
> not use "retarded" as a synonym for "bad/stupid?"

I would never do that.  D3lphin is retarded in every sense of the word - NOT
stupid, as I've already plonked Emanoil for insisting on using that word.

dict:retarded -> "slow or limited in intellectual or emotional development
or academic progress".  I believe that means _exactly_ how I feel about
D3lphin.  Yes, it also says "sometimes offensive".

> I have a mildly disabled brother whom I love. "Retarded" when misused in
> this manner is a fairly offensive word to me, 

And I find it offensive when people get upset with me for using a word AS IT
IS MEANT, not as they would have it; like the time my boss called me on the
carpet for sending an email in which the recipient took what I said as
_exactly_ the opposite of what it meant.  The boss understood what I wrote,
but said I should have used smaller words... 
-- 
derek