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(AB)These three definitions are ouroboros of subjective vagueness, gagging on its own tail.
(AC) Unfortunately, these labels can be opaque at best.
(AD) I find I’m bothered by the lack of a label in the Collegiate.
(AE)Not promising: after all, “obscene” is right there in the definition.
(BC) Such a conversation is completely normal when we’re trying to figure out what words should go into which dictionary.
(BD) Words that are crude, vulgar, embarrassing, obscene, or otherwise distasteful get treated just as clinically as science terms and other general vocabulary.
(BE)If there’s nothing in the style files, then we have to assume that the giants who went before us thought this was so commonsensical that it didn’t merit mentioning.