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This is conflating two different issues. Nobody here has said that other cultures shouldn't have special designators for various family members. Some even knew
by wayneftw 5y ago
This is conflating two different issues.
Nobody here has said that other cultures shouldn't have special designators for various family members. Some even knew the specific term for this one and the Chinese symbol for it.
It's perfectly reasonable for programmers to ridicule an unwieldy symbol and offer a shorter replacement. The replacement was to use the same word that is used in that culture instead of trying to describe the concept in English.
I don't see ignorance or arrogance in any of that.
- camtarn 5y agoObviously comment order changes, but I literally just needed to look one comment down to find somebody saying "This type of contact classification is useless", and there are a bunch of other similar comments scattered around. I think the GP poster has a good point.