They say “-master” can be replaced with “-maker”, and they give the examples of:
shipmaster -> shipmaker
headmaster -> headmaker
I can understand wanting to coin a new gender neutral suffix to replace “-master” but why would they include a literal counterexample. Very strange.
I think refraining from the use of 'comrade' suggests it's not satire. Otherwise, I would agree that it would be hard to know.
Re:Inclusive Coding Bot on GitHub
by MatteoFrigo on Friday April 01, 2022 @07:36PM
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I can't tell whether or not you are kidding, but "comrade" is indeed gender-neutral and the Pravda recently recommended using it: https://english.pravda.ru/society/149390-ladies_and_gentleme...
If the bot replaced "man" with "comrade" it would be accused of being Russian propaganda.
Yeah, agreed. The site is almost on the nose.
Maybe not though and you and I are just that "unwoke" lol
Re:Inclusive Coding Bot on GitHub
by KennyBlanken on Friday April 01, 2022 @11:39AM
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The terrible stock clip art, language that reads much like I would expect a boomer trying to imitate social justice folks would write...
It's hosted on Wix, which screams "boomer."
I think this is likely some near-retirement-age back-end programmer who is threatened by social justice movements, trying to manufacture outrage/blowback.
I will say that the repo that the bot is using is absolutely whack, https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/gender-inclusive-lang...
replaces 'mother' with 'parent', 'boyfriend' with 'consort', 'maiden voyage' with 'first voyage'. What a strange world.