[Proposal] terminate → end

[zhonglish]

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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[zhonglish]

‘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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