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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.

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[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

cool to read that you lot use "verboten" as a legit word

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I'm french and I use verboten too, it's in our genes to be scared of German words I think