Re:GitHub gender-inclusive language bot – postmortem FAQ
by zzzkkk on Friday April 08, 2022 @03:19PM
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Where does it say this is language is inherently bad? I'm not sure it does. As members of a software-focused community, can't we look at existing solutions that work okay and strive to make them even better? We all do this quite a bit in code review, for example.
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Re:GitHub gender-inclusive language bot – postmortem FAQ
by nullfield on Saturday April 09, 2022 @12:05AM
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Some are better, like “fireman” to “firefighter”; in those cases, they generalize a concept in a meaning-preserving manner and simplify.
edit I didn’t even see the next comment, that mentioned firefighter, when I wrote this; that makes it all the more to me.
Most are identity politics bullshit, and should be resisted.