# Today is Roy Batty's incept date

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**Created:** [January 8, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-roy-battys-incept-date/742507 "2016-01-08T16:28:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 12, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-is-roy-battys-incept-date/742507/81 "2016-01-12T22:40:53Z")

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> [@The Great Sun Jester](#):
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> What’s wrong with “skin job”? “Synthetic human” is maybe too close to “synthetic person”, which was Bishop’s preferred term and related to human-appearing machines.

Reported for use of the s-word.

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