Is "mung" or "munged" a negative word in a moral sense?

[kriesel]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

The term 'cousins', could be (and has been) used, but is not specific.

Not around here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin Cousin, not qualified by degree or removal, is specifically a child of a sibling of a parent.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

We have needs for words that previously didn't exist, so we create them. English hasn't had a word (at least for centuries) that means specifically nieces and nephews collectively. So people have started to use the word "niblings" (taking the common 'n' from niece and nephew, and sticking that on instead of the 's' in siblings). The term 'cousins', could be (and has been) used, but is not specific.

(This doesn't mean that I don't help people who unwittingly make an error in words.)

Back in the good old days "nephew", like "man", applied equally to both sexes.

[Batalov]

Originally Posted by xilman

... like "man", applied equally to both sexes.

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man®

[Dr Sardonicus]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

I heard a discuss of the word "munged" recently. In your mind is it a negative concept? Not just inelegant, but bad.

Also, how is it pronounced?

I knew I'd read the word, couldn't quite place it.

My old Merriam-Webster has the meaning, to grumble or complain.

However, a little online searching turned up the meaning I'd seen, which, I suspect (and please, correct me if I'm wrong) is the meaning in question here: altering computer data (e.g. reformatting HTML).

It can be done maliciously and/or destructively.

However, in the specific usage I know I've seen of "munged" in this regard, it was on the side of the angels: transmogrifying an E-mail address so that it was human-readable, but (hopefully) less so to spam-bots.

Rhymes with "sponge"

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by kriesel

Not around here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin Cousin, not qualified by degree or removal, is specifically a child of a sibling of a parent.

Use a dictionary, not an encyclopedia.

Originally Posted by http://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/cousin

1. In a general sense, one collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister.

Originally Posted by https://www.yourdictionary.com/cousin

OBS.
a collateral relative more distant than a brother or sister, descended from a common ancestor

Originally Posted by https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/cousin

someone who is related to you through a brother, sister, uncle, or aunt of one of your parents

Originally Posted by https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cousin

Obsolete
a collateral relative more distant than a brother or sister, descended from a common ancestor