What’s ‘internally’? I have no interest in policing people’s internal thoughts or private conversations where they are confident they everyone in the room is going to understand what they mean. But that’s in the same way as I don’t mind the use of the vast majority of offensive language behind firmly closed doors; I just can’t see the harm. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t offensive*.
But anything that could at some point be read by a journalist, including this forum and random blog posts, should be held to a significantly higher standard in my book. The clarity versus reputational risk trade-off looks alarmingly poor given you’re basically complaining about having to add an extra clause or two to your sentences in public-facing material only.
*Not that I would go as far as calling the suggestions here offensive. I’m just elaborating on the principle.
Sounds like we have been talking past one another—I’m really only talking about closed-door conversations and thoughts in your head. Clearly you have to be much more careful when speaking to a wide audience.
What’s ‘internally’? I have no interest in policing people’s internal thoughts or private conversations where they are confident they everyone in the room is going to understand what they mean. But that’s in the same way as I don’t mind the use of the vast majority of offensive language behind firmly closed doors; I just can’t see the harm. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t offensive*.
But anything that could at some point be read by a journalist, including this forum and random blog posts, should be held to a significantly higher standard in my book. The clarity versus reputational risk trade-off looks alarmingly poor given you’re basically complaining about having to add an extra clause or two to your sentences in public-facing material only.
*Not that I would go as far as calling the suggestions here offensive. I’m just elaborating on the principle.
Sounds like we have been talking past one another—I’m really only talking about closed-door conversations and thoughts in your head. Clearly you have to be much more careful when speaking to a wide audience.
That wasn’t really clear though, since this discussion started upon the term being used in public facing channels.
I thought I’d made it clear by talking about how it was necessary given my job and so on, but evidently I hadn’t.