G'day,
On word policing its a complete waste of time because of cultural
differences as suggested. This a bit long
but once we start it will never end. To give some real example:
1. Australian Student tells a Canadian Professor to "go and get stuffed ya
bastard" during a meeting.
2. Canadian Professor devotes the lecture to the Australian Student since:
* *This got translated by the Professor into a slur that he was
homosexual and he spent 15m discussing*
* his sexual preferences to a lecture of 40 people who had no idea
what the hell was going on.*
* * This was in the mid 80's and the student couldn't really care about
his activities.*
3. Within Northern Australia and Alaska there are lots of words on the
indigenous side where southerners
call them slurs and Northerners prefer them since they are different.
4. And of course we have master/slave banned by IEEE with a new proposal
I'm to be ban kvar sinces its
a reactive power symbol.
Apologies for the length, I'll go back to writing OpenBSD power systems.
Ta
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM jslee <openbsd.li...@internetemails.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, at 09:28, Evan Silberman wrote:
> > But of course we live in a less genteel age and rude words are now found
> > in many dictionaries.
>
> It is heavily context- and culture-dependent.
>
> Eg. a word many USAians appear (even in 2025!) to find extremely offensive
> is a very common term of endearment in Australia — but can also have the
> polar opposite meaning.
>
> When I watched Game of Thrones I frequently wondered if the
> director/writers were also trying to make USAians more comfortable with
> that same word.
>
> The global nature of this project suggests to me that changes such as
> proposed here should continue to be rejected.
>
> Also rather amused that OP complained about a wordlist but not
> /usr/share/games/fortune. It suggests a very shallow, lazy approach
> approach to word-policing
>
> John
>
>
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