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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by komali2 on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:30PM (#23531911)
> The word master been a word longer than it has been associated with slavery.

Hah, what? Slavery is as old as language, so I find this an interesting suggestion.

Edit: good points about the origin of language below. Another interesting question: if there had been more black computer scientists in early day MIT, Stanford, etc, would these terms have been adapted to the new technologies?

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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by bonzini on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:15PM (#23532436)
Latin used dominus for the master of a slave, and magister for someone who mastered or taught something.
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Re:GitHub abandons 'master' and 'slave' terms to avoid row by allan_s on Monday June 15, 2020 @03:42PM (#23532049)
master -> maetre (old french) -> magister latin

magister in latin, as far as I remember is the term used for the teacher (which is the same meaning in modern french, maître is how you call a teacher of primary school)

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