Might be confusing with the nested doc terminology
> Am 19.06.2020 um 20:14 schrieb Atita Arora <atitaar...@gmail.com>: > > I see so many topics being discussed in this thread and I literary got lost > somewhere , but was just thinking can we call it Parent -Child > architecture, m sure no one will raise an objection there. > > Although, looking at comments above I still feel it would be a bigger > effort to convince everyone than making a change. ;) > >> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020, 17:21 Mark H. Wood, <mw...@iupui.edu> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:22:49AM -0400, j.s. wrote: >>> On 6/18/20 9:50 PM, Rahul Goswami wrote: >>>> So +1 on "slave" being the problematic term IMO, not "master". >>> >>> but you cannot have a master without a slave, n'est-ce pas? >> >> Well, yes. In education: Master of Science, Arts, etc. In law: >> Special Master (basically a judge's delegate). See also "magistrate." >> None of these has any connotation of the ownership of one person by >> another. >> >> (It's a one-way relationship: there is no slavery without mastery, >> but there are other kinds of mastery.) >> >> But this is an emotional issue, not a logical one. If doing X makes >> people angry, and we don't want to make those people angry, then >> perhaps we should not do X. >> >>> i think it is better to use the metaphor of copying rather than one of >>> hierarchy. language has so many (unintended) consequences ... >> >> Sensible. >> >> -- >> Mark H. Wood >> Lead Technology Analyst >> >> University Library >> Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis >> 755 W. Michigan Street >> Indianapolis, IN 46202 >> 317-274-0749 >> www.ulib.iupui.edu >>
