[Proposal] terminate → end

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  • Month Seven 24, 2026 at 9:05 pm #1493
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    This is a proposal to retire the word terminate in favor of end.

    Latinate. \”Terminate employment\” — legal-coded euphemism for \”end employment.\”

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    Month Seven 24, 2026 at 10:20 pm #1814
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    ‘Terminate’ is what corporations do to employment contracts. It’s not what people do when something stops.

    The word carries a cold, procedural weight that ‘end’ doesn’t. For human communication, shorter is warmer. Retire it from casual use.

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