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A comment on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative. Parent comment

Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by bregma on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:15AM (#34064848)
...and which pen is used in an accounting ledger at certain times of year is not obscure?
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative by chrisbaker98 on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @07:55AM (#34065204)
I don't get what you're saying. It's not obscure at all that black ink denotes profits and red ink denotes losses - "in the black" and "in the red" are well-understood English phrases.

All I'm saying is that this particular meaning of black/red doesn't appear to be the origins of the name "black Friday", at least according to Wikipedia, but I really don't care about this enough to investigate any further.

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