alt Hacker NewsThe literal meaning of the word is "delayed", which seems less descriptive than the words you rejected in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49183728. Do you understand why this word is "forbidden"? What's the advantage over a more vulgar word like "fuckwit"?
https://wstyler.ucsd.edu/posts/r_word.html
> forcing language change seldom works, and ultimately, all they’re really doing is ushering us onto the next euphemism. They may banish “the R-word”, but soon enough, you’ll walk by a middle school playground and overhear “That movie was so developmentally disabled”.
I'm using "retard" because the term has extensive cultural baggage and everyone here has childhood memories of bullies labeling their victims as "retards". It hurts to have the label applied to you. For that reason I think these comments are going to stick with people once they leave this comments section.