My feeling is close to Christian's in this regard.

Writing docs is usually harder than writing code, especially for for
non-native speakers. Similar thing applies to non-native readers of it.
Try writing up a piece of PKI description without using "Alice and Bob"
and correlated his/her phrases.

While I understand that many society groups been going through various
troubles now and in the past, I do believe that changing of vocabulary
will simply not fix their issues. To be fair I don't know how to write
that to not step on somebody's else sensitive toe.

Best,
Łukasz

On 02.09.2021 20:18, Christian Schneider wrote:
> When there is a list of "bad" words and a tool that highlights them then
> this is exactly how it feels.
> 
> Christian
> 
> Am Do., 2. Sept. 2021 um 20:05 Uhr schrieb Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com>:
> 
>>
>>
>> On 9/2/21 1:52 PM, Christian Schneider wrote:
>>> I do not like this effort. Banning words and pointing them out is the
>> wrong
>>> way to achieve an inclusive environment.
>>> Also I think words like he or she must not be banned. They are neutral
>>> words that are totally acceptable in many cases.
>>> Avoiding them in most documentation might be fine but having them on a
>> bad
>>> word list feels extremely wrong to me.
>>>
>>> In our well meant effort to be woke we sometimes go too far.
>>
>> You have misunderstood this initiative. Nothing is banned, forbidden,
>> struck from the language, or otherwise removed from use.
>>
>> If you agree that avoiding these words in documentation might be fine,
>> then we're on the same page.
>>
>> Please don't make this into something it's not. Nobody has the
>> authority, or even the desire, to forbid you using certain words. This
>> tool is only intended to point out places where there *might* be a
>> better word choice.
>>
>> --
>> Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com
>> @rbowen
>>
> 
> 

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