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Ok, I'll try again with a less cynical and more engaged response. > Nobody cares about words being literal and self describing I care about literal and self d
by carbadtraingood 4y ago
Ok, I'll try again with a less cynical and more engaged response.
> Nobody cares about words being literal and self describing
I care about literal and self describing language, and I believe you are falling prey to the fundamental attribution error -- you believe there is a group of folks driving some agenda.
I look at the suggestion no matter where it comes from and say, "oh hey, yeah, I think that is a good suggestion".
It's not some grand conspiracy to "post hoc justify political activism". Someone just suggested a thing and many of us said, "oh yeah, that makes sense and is easy to change."
- Chris2048 4y agoWhy cherry-pick whitelist and not re-invent English? Do you agree underwater-boat should replace "submarine"?
- carbadtraingood 4y agoI don't use submarine in my daily work. But submarine is also not a metaphorical word, it's a literal one - sub (below) marine (the sea). One could argue that it's an insufficiently specific literal term, and that the word "vessel" should be added afterwards, I suppose. But it doesn't really matter because it's not the same error of form that Allowlist and whitelist have.
- Chris2048 4y agosub in this context means literally, physically below (or "inside" can also could for the sea, given in English this is the idiom) - but it can also mean small, lesser, or diminutive - it is far from unambiguous. Marine can mean the sea, but also things associated with the sea. Nearly all words are somewhat metaphorical, idiomatic - we just learn what those idioms are.