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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Fri, 24 July 2020 21:15 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 23:15:17 +0200
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
Cc: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 04:26:30PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
> >    But that's different. The problem is to recurringly changing the words for
>     the same subject because a prior word was abused AFTER it was choosen to
>     address the subject.
> 
> Thou varlet, I am woefully sorry that you feel that way.

Not sure i understand what you mean:

You think it is not only unavoidable, but also fine if over time we have to periodically
change the word we use for the same subject because word N-1 has accumulated to much
negative connotations ?

If not that, then pls. rephrase.

Thanks!
    Toerless

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