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Originally Posted by MrsJoseph
I am going to disagree with this.
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That's your right and prerogative.
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If you call someone something and they don't want to be called that - you are offending.
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If they tell you about it and you continue to so, probably (certainly to their face). That would be a conscious act, though, nothing accidental about it. "Offensive" is derived from lat.
ob (against) +
fendere (to strike); to me it's hard to see how you can strike somebody unless on purpose.