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There's plenty of similar cases in IT. Some people find Master/Slave offensive - though I personally believe this is a 'looking for problems'-kind of thing.
by mikejb 8y ago
There's plenty of similar cases in IT. Some people find Master/Slave offensive - though I personally believe this is a 'looking for problems'-kind of thing.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoYeah, we'd have to go through all sorts of books and documents on mechanics and electronics to whiteout (Doh! doing it again!!!) reference to those terms.
- thecatspaw 8y agowhiteout is an interesting one though, I personally would have written blackout
- dkersten 8y agoIt’s whiteout because of tipp-ex/white-out/liquid paper style products.
- Jach 8y agoI like rub out (from the space cadet keyboard's backspace equivalent).
- greenyoda 8y agoActually, "rub out" goes all the way back to Teletype keyboards: > "This code was originally used to mark deleted characters on punched tape, since any character could be changed to all ones by punching holes everywhere. If a character was punched erroneously, punching out all seven bits caused this position to be ignored or deleted, a computer version of correction fluid." See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_character#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delete_character#History
- guitarbill 8y agomaybe we should change brownout, Brown noise, and Brownian motion while we're there /s