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>cripple may be insensitive, use person with a limp instead

Hard to tell if this project is parody or authentic.

Er, authentic, surely? That's a word that people with disabilities may bitterly detest, as it is frequently used to mock them.

Of course, though without context for the example, it's hard to understand if it really is being used as a noun (which seems clearly offensive) or a verb, which doesn't immediately seem offensive to me, at least (like "We shipped a crippled version of the product as a trial").

Ah yes, that's true. I don't know if 'crippled' as an adjective applied to a non-person would cause people distress, I assume not (though I'd err on the side of caution).

Alas, that's the kind of thing that automated tools will inevitably make mistakes about. It's not doing NLP.

Your comment made my NLP parsing project upset and depressed. Hardly I will be able to make it pass tests until tomorrow now. Thanks.

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