On 9/5/21 6:03 PM, Łukasz Dywicki wrote:
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.
You'll get no disagreement from me on that - anyone who thinks that
changing vocabulary will fix everything is fooling themselves. Nope,
this is one step out of many. But it's an important step, because it
causes us to *think* about how words affect others. And that, in my
experience, leads us to think about how *everything* affects others.
Compassion and empathy start with small gestures. Small steps become
larger steps. Thinking that the small step is the entire solution is a
mistake. Worse yet, deciding not to take the small step because it's not
the entire solution, causes the larger steps to never be considered.
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.
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