Re:Word usage guidance and alternative terms
by f6v on Monday April 19, 2021 @04:59AM
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Maybe it shouldn’t even try? I mean, since when is an internet ad company qualified to tell me what language to use?
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Re:Word usage guidance and alternative terms
by goto11 on Monday April 19, 2021 @05:04AM
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That is my point. They can decide how they use language in their own documentation and communication, they can't decide how everyone else uses it. So they they can't change that people use black or white to refer to skin color, as the comment suggested.
Re:Word usage guidance and alternative terms
by Arch-TK on Monday April 19, 2021 @09:51AM
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Actually given their extreme reach and near monopoly over information they could probably try to change how people use black and white to refer to skin color which would certainly be a far more noble cause than bikeshedding these weird internal language standards to make themselves look good.
Re:Word usage guidance and alternative terms
by goto11 on Monday April 19, 2021 @11:37AM
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I don't find it particularly noble. When it comes to human communication I believe in Postels law: Be strict in what you send, be lenient in what you accept.
You suggest there is no point in changing your own communication if you cant force the whole to change in the same way. I disagree.