Trigger words: abnormal (3)
Indicator sentences: Regardless of connotations or how people feel about words, abnormal does not mean negative. A word isn't there for everyone to pile on their own meaning to it. A word has a defined meaning. Otherwise we'd be in chaos
Negotiation parts: As a /u/[Deleted] has pointed out [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSDiscussion/comments/2c3toa/the_use_and_connotations_of_the_word_normal_and/): [STA-CITE]>Abnormal is another word that ought mean a practice, phenomenon or occurrence that is outside the normal range, as a term purely of description. Instead, it is almost entirely used in a pejorative, pathologising or negative sense. [END-CITE]If you tell me a word, it dosen't matter what its dictonary deffinition is. The only things that do matter are what you wanted to convey with that word and how I understood it. When you call something "normal" other people hear you saying "this is the way it should be". If "normal" really only meant "most common" then there would be no controversy and this thread wouldn't exist. Not true. Prescriptive linguistics have fallen out favour (if it was ever in favour, and many/most would say it wasn't) and English (and most other languages) is governed by descriptivism, not to mention that the study of linguistics itself is inherently descriptive. Countless words have already changed meaning, so if you want to avoid "chaos" it's too late.
Trigger words: Normal (8) normal
Indicator sentences: Nobody thinks homosexuality is the most common way for human beings to be, because that's not what "normal" really means.
Negotiation parts: "Normal" means something more like "not unusual," in both a literal (there are lots of homosexual individuals) and subjective (it is not wrong or strange to be homosexual) sense.
Trigger words: Normal (8) normal
Indicator sentences: Sure, you could define "normal" that way, but your definition would be useless because it doesn't describe anyone or anything.