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<Dudicon> i would but you're too fat to fit in my mouth!!

A ten and a half year necro! That's gotta be a new record.

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I generally forget to say, so if it's relevant and I don't mention it--I'm from Southern Michigan and speak Inland North American English. Yes, I have the Northern Cities Vowel Shift; no, I don't have the cot-caught merger; and it is called pop.

Assuming I'm understanding what this link is saying correctly, most people are, for at least some part of their lives, able-bodied. It shouldn't be surprising that cognitive metaphors should be "ableist".

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Even in that case, it is at most the metaphors themselves that are bigoted, not the concept itself.

Which assumptions are wrong anyway?

Wouldn't you say that the word "necroing" is metaphorical in itself, as you're extending the idea of the living-dead contrast to inanimate (and, more to the point, virtual) forum threads?

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