Why do they never say “zombie”?

The 3rd and 4th to last are probably referring to Fallout, but Ghouls are not the same as zombies. Ghouls are still fully sentient (unless they’ve gone feral) people whose bodies have rotted due to radiation exposure, and “shambler” is a slur used for them.

"Infected" is fully acceptable

Idk if the zeds thing is a reference to killing floor buuuut technically zeds just aren’t zombies at all and more bioengineered killing machines (assuming that was a killing floor reference) it gets more obvious when you see a gorefast or a fleshpound (different kinds of zeds)

To be fair I will take any opportunity i can get to say the word "ghoul" aloud

I mean, clearly when we know they're zombies then this would happen anyways, like how we got soda, pop, tonic, and coke, it'd just be colloquialisms or other languages words. The way this is actually used is to pretend zombies were never a concept in universe before then

If zombies become real imma name them jews

Cause calling them walkers has more aura

@grok why do these kinds of shows avoid saying “zombie”

Because using another word gives whatever world using said word a unique identity and distinction of their version of zombies vs other zombie media.

I mean to be fair most modern zombies aren't really revived corpses

The story takes place in a universe where the term “zombie” is totally unknown