I'm currently rather annoyed that "epithet" has come to be a synonym with "slur", since the more traditional meaning/concept is actually pretty great.

...I do have one in my display name here, after all :p

I've taken to using "appellation" to refer to the same thing, but I don't know if that's actually technically correct; maybe it's just making things worse

Actually, now that I think about it, it's socially pretty terrible that "epithet" was at some point started to be used as euphemism for "slur".

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