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Gotta love the way people on this thread ignore the actual experiences of actual people motivating this and invent “Puritanism”, “Offence”, “Language Police” an
by moomin 5y ago
Gotta love the way people on this thread ignore the actual experiences of actual people motivating this and invent “Puritanism”, “Offence”, “Language Police” and “Political Correctness” straw-men to complain about instead.
Not everything is about your culture war.
- PedroBatista 5y agoCan you explain what actual experiences people had with coq/coc/cock?
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- moomin 5y agoSo one that I saw on Twitter had a supervisor (M) saying to a student (F) they hadn’t previously met “So I hear you really like Coq.” No harassment intended, but plenty of awkwardness (including on the part of the supervisor after he’d heard what he’d said). Nothing major, but a) you can see how something like that could happen all the time and just be draining to deal with b) I don’t think changing the name is that major either.
- daneel_w 5y agoBut everything is about how offended you and others feel over the French word for rooster, which happens to sound like a completely different word in another language. Got it.
- thefz 5y ago> Not everything is about your culture war. Not everything is about America either.