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HN just had an article on the front page yesterday talking about how Google Docs will now suggest you not use words like “motherboard” and “landlord”, and inste
by md2020 4y ago
HN just had an article on the front page yesterday talking about how Google Docs will now suggest you not use words like “motherboard” and “landlord”, and instead use more “inclusive” language. This stuff has literally gone from “it’s just college kids” to “it’s just Google”. And please, no “you can just build your own Google Docs” responses.
- newsycom 4y ago
- ZeroGravitas 4y agoHere's someone making fun of people who get upset about this kind of language evolution, written in 1985 and clearly exasperated from reading the kind of nonsense for years before that: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.htm... So it seems unlikely that 'leftists' in 2010 were saying "gender neutral language" was just students being idiots.