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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:09:12 JST Rich Felker

   🖕 spell checkers that don't know the very respectable word "chonk" or "chonky" and try to "correct" it to a 🤬 slur.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:13:07 JST Rich Felker

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     • Peter Brett

     @krans Well the form with the -y sure isn't. But also, in the contexts where you'd write "chonk" or "chonky", it clearly comes across as the slur.

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     Peter Brett (krans@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 15-Mar-2025 03:13:08 JST Peter Brett

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     @dalias “a small cleft, slit, or fissure” is also a very respectable word, isn't it?