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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I agree with most of your post but it's not necessarily that the language doesn't matter to them and that's simply engrained from being brought up and lived in different times. As much as we expect people to change we have to remember the old saying "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" is somewhat relevant in that the brain starts degrading at the age of 40 by about 5% per decade and the rate starts increasing at 60. It's hard enough for some elderly people to be nearly as competent as they used to let alone learn new things and have them engrained. That said, for all we know the poster could be young enough to know better. That's the problem as we just don't know which makes the arguing pointless.
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IDK, man. His daughter is considering adopting this lady's baby. He'll be a grandfather to an adopted child. I think we may have just saved him a fk ton of embarrassment and family drama/hurt feelings by letting him know making a distinction between granddaughter and adopted granddaughter could make him look really bad within his family. Letting that slide here could have had real-life negative consequences for him.