Re: Sensitive words

["collin372" <cmmcculley@***********>]

>医者 is holding up pretty well in WWW pages. There are
>about 5.7M pages hits for it, plus 1.7M for お医者さん.
>医師 gets over 11M.

Is this list specifically sensitive words that are banned because of 
possible offense, or does it include words that are restricted simply 
because it was not felt to be stylistically appropriate (in similar 
way to newspaper style manuals in the US)?

It occurs to me that a word like 医者 might be on that list because 
someone felt that 医師 would be more formal and therefore better in a 
news context or other formal non-colloquial contexts in broadcast, 
not because some doctors are going to scream if they hear it.  If 
that's the case, it would be a disservice to discourage its use 
through a mark indicating "sensitivity".

We'd do well to be careful on that one.

BTW, if you do mark sensitive words (real ones like 盲), it would be 
good to have a cross-reference to the word that is more appropriate.

--Collin