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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

"Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com> Sun, 09 August 2020 23:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
To: Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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Granted.  In the long run, all language changes.

However, I expect some uses to change sooner than others.  And I am not 
asking that all uses change now.  But I do think we should change some 
of the uses, in our space.

Yours,
Joel

On 8/9/2020 6:37 PM, Joe Touch wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Aug 9, 2020, at 2:27 PM, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
>>
>> While I do not know what others expect, I do not expect those usages to change.  Words have many meanings.
> 
> Angeits awaendednys*
> 
> Or don’t you still speak Old English?
> 
> Joe
> 
> *(meanings change)
>

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