[Ads-l] Harmful, hurtful, horrible

[Laurence Horn]

Of course.  Ableist that I am, I never even thought of that.  I wonder what
the mobility-neutral term is for "walk/wheel-in closet", though. There's
"accessible closet" but that doesn't really have the right denotation, and
"roomy/spacious closet" isn't specific enough.

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:34 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> >
> >
> > Since the article doesn't elucidate, I'm wondering about the putatively
> > hurtful nature of "walk-in". Psychologically harmful to houses,
> apartments,
> > or people that don't have such closets? Or insulting to certain clinics?
>
> Probably considered by some to be "ableist", in that people who use
> wheelchairs, etc., are not able to "walk in" to such a space.
>
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