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'Master' and 'slave': Tech terms face scrutiny amid anti-racism efforts
tggzzz:
Alternative terms, without further comment: controller and responder.
Not my idea; see https://www.eetimes.com/its-time-for-ieee-to-retire-master-slave/
I have created software entities that I've called "comptroller", but that's completely different :)
Simon:
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--- Quote from: Simon on June 19, 2020, 07:42:01 am ---Quite, changing the term does nothing and is worse as it just ignores the problem which is worse. Just brushing it under the carpet and renaming things is causing the perpetuation of the problem and makes those pretending to solve the problem incompetent and they are just causing more harm. But instead they get a pat on the back for "fixing" it by changing a name.
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Compare and contrast that with "top" managments' corporate rebranding exercises.
Usually, but not always, that is due to either too many underemployed chiefs finding make-work, or a company in the doldrums and management being clueless about how to solve that.
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I do use the term special needs as a word of offense, not because it is used to refer to people with learning disabilities but because I see the sort of people trying to make these silly changes as special because they are demanding special treatment so they have special needs or are "special". How special or special needs has anything to do with learning disabilities or metal retardation I don't know. So now the word special which is linguistically a positive word is used negatively. It's crazy. I likely have aspergers, I would like to be called special for the particular skills i have but instead it has a negative connotation and signals that i am inferior.
So much language is changed these days to soften meaning and make it more pallatable. Just try listening to talk about military vehicles and weapons. Instead of calling them what they are I hear terms like, platform, system, munitions, engage and many more I can't care to remember. i never hear the words weapon, tank, gun, attack, kill, destroy which is what military equipment is about. Who are we trying to kid? We make stuff that kills people if we feel they are a threat, why do we have to soften the language?
With the constant change in terms and dumbing down of terms we are converging on a situation where you can't discuss anything properly because everything is a "thingy", we have stopped using the proper descriptive words in case we offend someone.
PlainName:
--- Quote ---the party is well know for still trying to bury itself in the 19th century.... so it's policies are the opposite of advanced
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Perhaps 'vintage' was the word you were looking for.
Or maybe not :)
tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Simon on June 19, 2020, 08:11:43 am ---... I likely have aspergers, I would like to be called special for the particular skills i have but instead it has a negative connotation and signals that i am inferior. ...
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I have sympathy with all that.
--- Quote ---So much language is changed these days to soften meaning and make it more pallatable. Just try listening to talk about military vehicles and weapons. Instead of calling them what they are I hear terms like, platform, system, munitions, engage and many more I can't care to remember. i never hear the words weapon, tank, gun, attack, kill, destroy which is what military equipment is about. Who are we trying to kid? We make stuff that kills people if we feel they are a threat, why do we have to soften the language?
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Words are slippery. Old joke...
The different branches of the military are told to "secure the building". The marines storm it, the army establishes a defensive perimeter, the navy paints it, and the air force acquires a 5 year lease with option to buy.
--- Quote ---With the constant change in terms and dumbing down of terms we are converging on a situation where you can't discuss anything properly because everything is a "thingy", we have stopped using the proper descriptive words in case we offend someone.
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Or worse, stopped communicating because it might unwittingly offend somebody.
GeorgeOfTheJungle:
Now that they want to remove statues, the saying "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" comes to my mind.
In fact, I bet they don't even know/understand the whole history behind the people, circumstances and context of those whose statues they want to remove.
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