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| madires:
And Japanese wouldn't want to rename their miso anyway. It's an essential in Japanese cuisine. |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
So if MOSI in now cunt, then MISO ought to be.. 8===D ?? |
| Nominal Animal:
The world is full of terms and words that are offensive or funny in other languages – and even in their original language due to stylistics –, from TheRapistFinder (TherapistFinder) to ChildSexChange (ChildsExchange) to brands and models like Mitsubishi Pajero (Mitsubishi Jerk in Spanish) to even peoples' names. (The surname Paska common in Eastern Europe is literally Shit in Finnish, for example.) This is at the core of this entire matter, too. Instead of being offended or being ashamed for laughing at the words like little children, we should know how to adult, and understand that each term is embedded in their own context, and must be interpreted as such. The coincidence is funny, yes, but the words are just words, defined in their own contexts. There literally are no "bad words", only contexts and concepts that some people find offensive. Using the meaning of a word in one context in a completely different context is lying, or (intentional) misleading at least. Eradicating the expression of concepts will have zero effect, because new ones will just take their place. If there was no need to express those concepts in the first place, they wouldn't exist; and since there is a need, new forms of expression will appear when old ones are banned – and history is full of proof of this. It is futile. The current movement is worse than proverbial 'fighting against windmills', because the movement is essentially about forcing everyone to 'fight against windmills', or risk rejection and cancellation. It is literally insane. |
| GeorgeOfTheJungle:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on July 21, 2020, 10:11:43 am ---Mitsubishi Pajero (Mitsubishi Jerk in Spanish) --- End quote --- Let me fix that 4u: Mitsubishi wanker in spanish. |
| julianhigginson:
I love how reactionary Conservatives virtue signal by crying about how other people are virtue signalling. It's hilarious. Anyway, point of my two links I posted on this topic today is it looks like despite the collective tantrum and echo chambering we are seeing in here from a handful of dedicated reactionaries and a couple of impressionable followers, it's gaining momentum in the real world. Oh. And I'm not really concerned by people changing my SPI naming convention in any designs I do.... Chances are, if a couple of letters in a simple and standard serial comms convention are enough to throw you off your game that you can't work without changing it, well, there'll be other things that need rework in your "finished" job, and I'll change it back again while I'm fixing those mistakes anyway. |
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