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langwadt:

--- Quote from: Fred Basset on July 07, 2020, 06:31:20 am ---I agree with you.  Lots of people are taking this seriously now.  I know they mean well - They want to be kind people who do not offend others.  I respect them for that, but this seems to be out of all proportion now.

I think a lot of it is companies being afraid of seeming insensitive and losing money.  So nothing is too much trouble to be careful to leave nothing that could cause offense.  My non-white friends are not complaining about such things, it is seemingly white people who are complaining about them.  Some are well-meaning I suppose, but I wonder about the motives of the others?

Incidentally, your English is superb.  Like most languages is is harder to write than speak.  Yet I would not have known you are not a native speaker unless you told me.  You must have to concentrate and work very hard on subjects such as this, where the nuances are incredibly subtle at times.

I can however see why this must all be so scary for you.  It would be for me also as there are so many words and phrases that are in everyday use and yet you have to be cafeful over.  It was only a few weeks ago I made a really bad mistake.  A (black) friend asked if I was busy?  I was thinking about what I was doing and so said without thinking - "I am working like a slave on this".  There was an awkward silence BUT ONLY FROM ME.  My friend had not even noticed what I had said.

The worst I ever came across was a TV repair man in the early 80s I knew.  He had a very bad experience in a bar.  In Britain "a foreigner" is also another term for working for cash in hand, no tax and it does not go through the company's books.  He said a man came up to him on Satuday night who he knew a bit, because he had fixed his rented TV.  He said the TV was faulty and the family would have no TV over the weekend, and could he just come and have a look at it please?  He said he did not "do foreigners" and noticed with horror that the guy had brown skin.  The man went bezerk, thinking he had just been terribly insulted.  He pointed out he was NOT a foreigner, but born in Britain.  He treatened to call the head office and report him and so on.  He had never heard the term "foreigner" for doing a job off the books, so of course he thought it was a racist insult.  The TV repair guy said it took longer to calm him down than going to fix the blasted TV would have done.  Not only that, but to prove he was not a racist, he had to buy him a drink as well...

The English language can be one massive trap, sometimes more so if you are a native speaker as so much "throw-away" sayings seem full of problematic words.  So don't worry, even native speakers make mistakes all the time.

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any idea why it is called "a foreigner"?, here  is literally called black work or working black I assume because it is often done after hours like moonshine

magic:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on July 06, 2020, 10:21:50 am ---
--- Quote ---According to the company, Twitter's engineers plan to remove nine insensitive terms, including whitelist, blacklist, master/slave, grandfathered, various gendered pronouns, and terms like man hours, sanity check, and dummy value. Each will be replaced with the following new terms, Twitter said.
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Told you it never ends. Hope everyone enjoys the future they are creating.

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They are dumb and brainwashed, they don't care.
And the liberals who were open minded enough to allow communist agents to infiltrate their education and entertainment will coincidentally enjoy it too, amazing how this world works.

I must say that despite his schizophrenia, Terry Davis was one of the sanest Americans of modern time.

--- Quote from: Terry ---God is perfectly just.
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:popcorn:


--- Quote from: bd139 on July 06, 2020, 06:36:28 pm ---I’m at the point where I’m going to buy some popcorn for when people have had enough of this shit and smack it back to reality.

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This :-+
But I will have a separate bowl of :popcorn: for watching guys like you, no offence ;)
bd139:

--- Quote from: magic on July 07, 2020, 08:47:06 am ---Terry Davis was one of the sanest Americans of modern time.

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And there goes your entire argument.
magic:
Well, we still don't know what happened to Terry's space alien ::)

But when you look at the rest of Americans, are they really that much better than him? ;)
Mind why this thread exists, mind the loooong list of American companies which already jumped on the bandwagon.
bd139:
Most of the population is batshit crazy yes. I said at the start of the whole coronavirus thing that I fear my fellow citizens more than any virus. I stand by that.
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