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Yeah, the issue was not that they were checked in as "miss", which presumably was correct - there is no indication that these women were married, or preferred "
by Grustaf 6y ago
Yeah, the issue was not that they were checked in as "miss", which presumably was correct - there is no indication that these women were married, or preferred "ms" - but that the software incorrectly interpreted "miss" as meaning "child".
- Someone1234 6y agoAnd also why it did: Cultural norms were different between the unnamed country the software was created in, and used (with one using "miss" exclusively for young women, and the other not).
- Alex3917 6y agoIt's interesting because while Miss technically just means that a woman is unmarried, in practice it's only used for children. Similar to how Master technically just means an unmarried male, but I doubt anyone on here has been called that since second or third grade.