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How to remove condescending language from documentation
- sigmaprimus 7y agoSo this is what its come to now huh? First it was tip toeing around trigger words to protect these fragile individuals,now were going to rewrite docs becuase someone might feel bad for not grasping a subject? I wonder if someones mom came up with this idea while they were coddling their kid during a job interview? Was that too condescending for the snowflakes? Too bad, everyone knows that they're obviously too simple to grasp this easy to undersand comment.
- dang 7y agoOn HN, please don't react to provocation with denunciatory rhetoric. That just leads to flamewar, and we're trying to avoid that. If you can't respond in a thoughtful and informative way, it's best to have the discipline not to respond. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- 7532yahoogmail 7y agoRelated: condescending words in ads and software/tech product pitches: Condescending? You mean sales and marketing BS. Try asking a perspective hire to explain what they did without using the words simple, environment, simply, just, experience, like, to not start sentences with the word "so". Most can't start. When some clown says the same cookie cutter bs "at (company name) our goal is simple: we just want to (moon shot or moon shot squared near impossible goal) by a single click ... What's the listener supposed to do? - orgasm? - try to get hired by same? - find out who's on the board and hope to marry one? - think "oh gosh they're so vital and awe inspiring"? - start attending mass again? - or roll your eyes (correct)