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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by boxed on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:33AM (#46031330)
Is it silly though? With enough linguistic archeology I bet you can make this entire comment I'm writing right now extremely problematic and offensive. The linguistic treadmill means exactly that older terms change meaning back in time. They also change meaning FORWARD in time, meaning your inoffensive terms today will almost certainly be offensive in the future.

It's also the case that offense is language dependent, which is always funny when Americans hard ban certain words on chats and then Swedes can't use the Swedish word for "end" because it's spelled like a slur in English.

Everyone needs to stop this nonsense.

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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by Y-bar on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:41AM (#46031369)
> Swedes can't use the Swedish word for "end" because it's spelled like a slur

"Ände" is a slur? (excuse my lack of transductional skills)

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Re:Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch by optionalsquid on Monday November 24, 2025 @02:45AM (#46031395)
They probably mean "slut". The word has the same meaning in Danish, by the way
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