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01/12/2003 15:17:26
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Windows
Category:
Computing in general
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00853925
Message ID:
00854821
Views:
29
>>>>The County of Los Angeles thinks the terms "master/slave" should be avoided: they are socially unacceptable!
>>>>
>>>>http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
>>>
>>>Who knows a new name for male connectors and female connectors?! Please hurry, for their naming will be banned soon too.
>>
>>LOL!
>>
>>In electronics we use "Plug" for male and "Jack" for female.
>>
>>The United States version of the English language has many prudish customs and people who interpret each word. For example, using “Mailman can cause problems. Some people insist that words should be neutral such as “Mailperson”. Others think it should be “MailWoman”or "MailMan".
>
>Think about the names - Norman, Herman... now for the latter we have a feminine version Hermina.
>
>So: postmina, firemina, congressmina... unless we want to rewrite history about Ottoperson Empire.

I was always wondering, why women are still allowed to use the exclamations like "Man, oh man!" (even if there is no man involved :). The PC way to say it... you guessed it :) Otherwise, it is not only politically incorrect, bit may be also considered as sexist. Someone may think that men are always to blame, isn't it? :)
Nick Neklioudov
Universal Thread Consultant
3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work." - Thomas Edison
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