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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts

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bd139:
Chairperson is easier than cis-chairwoman and chairattackhelicopter  :)

I actually looked after the gender drop drop down list on a web site for a bit. That got complicated quickly.

GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Yo, the whiteys want "main", gonna git branch -m master white cuz that's the shit for real bro.

Simon:

--- Quote from: Cerebus on June 14, 2020, 02:53:19 pm ---
On the subject of Master/Mistress, Mistress always used to have a connotation of being in charge - "May I speak to the Mistress of the house?". With "Mistress" taking on a sexual connotation in recent years this usage has rather fallen by the wayside. I find it faintly amusing that that the modern usage, to refer to a (generally covert) female lover, quietly carries the old meaning with it, "we know who's really in charge".  :D

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a Norman Wisdom film made a gag out of this. He joins a wealthy household as a window cleaner. another servant that does not like him directs him into a party being held by the mistress of the house when he asks for the staff room. unawares of where he is when asked if he knows the lady of the house he declares that she is his mistress just as she arrives to faint.

I think the gag was that to an upper class person and a working class person had simultaneously different definitions of the word mistress.

magic:

--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2020, 01:46:50 pm ---Git mailing list thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/9accf436-4b7a-2de2-de79-e81ec090dfc9@gmail.com/T/#ma9a4da070ddf8ff87729960bb31ce2a8776c73c1

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--- Quote ---We've also seen "default" floated and it exists in mercurial, but we've also heard feedback that it's potentially sensitive due to financial default.
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:-DD

Where is the Rocket Man when we need him?

coppice:

--- Quote from: magic on June 14, 2020, 03:07:45 pm ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 14, 2020, 01:46:50 pm ---Git mailing list thread: https://public-inbox.org/git/9accf436-4b7a-2de2-de79-e81ec090dfc9@gmail.com/T/#ma9a4da070ddf8ff87729960bb31ce2a8776c73c1

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--- Quote ---We've also seen "default" floated and it exists in mercurial, but we've also heard feedback that it's potentially sensitive due to financial default.
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:-DD

Where is the Rocket Man when we need him?

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Depending how you draw these trees, "extreme left wing" might be a suitable term.

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