Programmer Humor

People get super defensive about every single word they say, like some single solitary slight substitution squarely suggests stifling someone's soul, striking substance seemingly senselessly. But it's not substance: it's simply a choice of word that some/many make without even really considering it. It's a non-issue that suddenly becomes a big damn problem suppressing people's freeze peach for no good reason I recall ever seeing.

"Hey, could you not say [word] [/so much] maybe? There are [better/other] choices" is apparently equivalent in personal offensiveness to "You're now Harold, a Scientologist whose favourite colour is green and your greatest dream/goal in life is to become a glider pilot."