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Re: [Gendispatch] another possibly problematic word

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 08 September 2020 16:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Gendispatch] another possibly problematic word
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In article <759A0AD6-B143-4D71-9CEC-2C94C5A87E3A@akamai.com> you write:
>A separate issue that we may want to consider relates to use of the word/term “nonce”.  In British English this
>term is slang for a paedophile,

There is an unlimited supply of slang words and idioms that mean
different things in different varieties of English, and we could
spend an unlimited amount of time rooting* them out.

It seems to me we need to consider the context and whether it
plausibly would offend or demean people. For example, the US and UK
meanings of to knock someone up are utterly different, but people
invariably find that amusing, not offensive.

R's,
John

* - I hear that in the Antipdes, "root" is a fairly vulgar slang
sexual term, leading to some care in one's pronunciation of "router."
But I don't see any need to change our terminology for the node at the
top of a tree of data.

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