Re:An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring ...
by tgv on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:10AM
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Mongo and mongol don't have a close relationship: the final syllable is entirely different.
Re:An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring ...
by whatshisface on Sunday May 23, 2021 @01:40PM
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It's implied that someone is going around calling people with Down's syndrome "Mongos." "Mongol" is an actual non-offensive[0] word which means, unsurprisingly, someone who can trace their lineage back to the area around Mongolia.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongols (If it's used descriptively on Wikipedia, it's probably not considered offensive.)
Re:An early look at Postgres 14: Performance and monitoring ...
by randomswede on Monday May 24, 2021 @03:48AM
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Mongol is not (as far as I am aware) an offensive word. Mongoloid[0] (which "mongo" is a shortened form of) in reference to people with Down Syndrome, definitely is.
My pet theory is that the database is named after a character in "Blazing Saddles", and I want to be able to store candy in it.
"Almost all" does sound like a bit of a surprise, but thinking back on it the only one I know for a fact I heard for the first time outside of a corrective context was my elder uncles friends who enjoyed self-depreciating jokes, usually with slurs for eastern Europeans in them. I first heard those as a child and only realized years later they were offensive. Most others, I think, I honestly have no idea when i was first exposed to them.