Timeline for Can you say "his ears are problematic" when someone has a hearing problem?
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| Sep 9, 2023 at 16:44 | comment | added | TimR on some device | "careful not to call..." | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 20:15 | comment | added | JMac | @ZsoltSzilagy I find it problematic that you see things that way. You're putting way more implication behind the words than their definitions carry; and posting it as an answer might mislead people about the word and it's practical use. I would be careful to assume that someone calling someone else problematic is trying to imply they are a bad person. | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 20:06 | comment | added | TonyK | I'm afraid that this answer is totally wrong. "Problematic" is no more negative than "causes problems". Calling somebody's ears problematic is not an insult! (Bocs, de úgy mondom, ahogy látom.) | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 19:53 | comment | added | Zsolt Szilagy | @JMac, well, I'll leave it as it is. This is about percieved implications of wording, and as such, it is natural that there are disagreements. Frankly I find the assignment of the attribute "problematic" quite offending, especially because it is an often-used euphemism. | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 18:43 | comment | added | JMac | ... I don't find that any better. I still think this is far from the intention behind calling a child "problematic". It's no more a judge of character than saying "that child causes problems". I don't see where you're getting the implication that "problematic" means "bad person". | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | Zsolt Szilagy | @JMac: Thanks! I changed the wording to more precisely express my intention. | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 17:53 | history | edited | Zsolt Szilagy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 17, 2020 at 15:05 | comment | added | JMac | I don't see the second one as any more negative than the first... Calling a child "problematic" doesn't imply that they will never become a decent person to me; it only tells me that they cause problems. I think that's an exceptionally strange way to interpret "problematic". | |
| Mar 17, 2020 at 12:40 | history | answered | Zsolt Szilagy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |