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Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Mon, 27 July 2020 05:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: IESG Statement On Oppressive or Exclusionary Language
To: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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From: Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com>
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On 26/7/20 14:30, Joseph Touch wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Jul 25, 2020, at 11:33 PM, Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com 
>> <mailto:fgont@si6networks.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Since we are at it, may I ask that the following terms be added to the 
>> "discussion":
>> * balkanization
>> * third-world countries
>> ?
> 
> Yes - thanks. That does help. Other examples are welcome - at least to 
> me directly off-list if not on-list.
>  

FWIW, this is what I'd probably suggest as alternatives:

* third-world countries / thirld world -> developing 
countries/developing economies

* balkanization -> segmentation / uncooperative segmentation / 
conflictive segmentation/separation


P.S.: One of the most useful things would be for the tools employed to 
create documents (e.g. xml2rfc or idnits and/or spellcheck) to issue 
warnings for these, and probably suggest the author to tweak the text 
and maybe suggest some of the alternatives we are discussing here..

Thanks!

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com
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