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Why cherry-pick whitelist and not re-invent English? Do you agree underwater-boat should replace "submarine"?

• carbadtraingood 4y ago
  I 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 ago
    sub 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.