Some words simply don't feel right anymore. As an example, I used to live on the Dutch countryside. The owner of the farm would be called the "boer", and his as

Some words simply don't feel right anymore. As an example, I used to live on the Dutch countryside. The owner of the farm would be called the "boer", and his assistant would be called "knecht" (ranch hand? It curiously is pronounced not unlike knight). I completely forgot all of that until recently, the farms around our city were opened to the general public. My kid wanted to go, and while they were enjoying themselves looking at the animals, I struck up a chat with the owner of the farm and asked on a whim if the "knecht" was still called that. No, he answered, that position is now called "medewerker" (operator? colleague? contributor? I dunno.) I think the time for words like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist is simply past. This is just an observance, I don't have an opinion either way.