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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by b800h on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:10AM (#42683048)
This is the same in British English. I found the main/master switch absurd. I went to school, and was taught by masters: an English master, History master and so on. In my cultural context, the switch was just cultural colonialism from America.
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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by TeMPOraL on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:32AM (#42683234)
This is the same in other European languages. For example in Polish, the equivalent word, "mistrz", refers to all the things GP said, but doesn't even have a meaning that could be applied to slavery.

As for American English, wake me up when they rename Master's degree.

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Re:It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor by b800h on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:46AM (#42683346)
Well, the tide is going out now. That's unlikely to happen until the virus mutates and reappears in thirty years' time.
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