renaissance poisson

"lame" _is_ a horse word. :) note that i am giving up usage of words in a disparaging sense. it's not disparaging to say "the bay mare is lame"; it's descriptive.

"insane" i've never really used much because i had a mother who was actually insane, and it bothers me if people throw it around willy-nilly for things that are not at all insane, but just outside their own limited experience.

yes, "stupid" will be hard for me to change. but it's a cheap and lazy word, and it will actually be more helpful to me to dig down a bit about a "stupid" action of mine and see what's underneath. was it really lacking in intelligence? which kind of intelligence? was it careless? reckless? thoughtless? lacking judgment?

i am generally strongly privileging logical and linguistic intelligence, and need to work on that as well. cutting out "stupid" will give me a small jerk every time i am inclined to use it, and make me think instead.