[throwaway_au_1]

Great point. Would it be a stretch to suggest that this language is in reality just another medium for virtue signalling?

[faeriechangling]

What people in the thread said is that they’re more comfortable saying or hearing things phrased a certain way, so that’s why they use that phrasing. Sure you can use language as a means of virtue signalling though.

For me though, I simply see being offbeat phrasing as being stigmatizing in practice, it ends up drawing more attention to whatever was being described.