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> master (v) > become adept in > Historically, masters enslaved people, didn't consider them human and didn't allow them to express free will, so this term sh
by ARandomerDude 4y ago
> master (v)
> become adept in
> Historically, masters enslaved people, didn't consider them human and didn't allow them to express free will, so this term should generally be avoided.
I assume Stanford now hands out an Adept Degree at the end of grad school.
- sn41 4y agoI personally would prefer a Journeyman exit degree option :)
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoJourneyperson, thank you very much. Actually, journeyperchild.
- Traubenfuchs 4y agoThe usage of "person" erases the existence of otherkin and pronoun users that reject the "person" label. Please use "entity" instead. Journeyentity.
- ngc248 4y agoJourneyentity means that they are capable of moving/travelling ... what about those who cannot move about?
- AustinDev 4y agoThose people are called invalids and they can travel. Please use the correct term.[1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_carriage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_carriage
- laserdancepony 4y agoI would not want some snotty academics to devalue my trade school degree.
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- NoToP 4y agoNgl now I kind of wish I had an Adept degree
- lostsock 4y agoI know you're being sarcastic, but they do indeed still have "Masters degrees": https://online.stanford.edu/masters-degrees https://online.stanford.edu/masters-degrees
- fleddr 4y agoWater - refreshing fluid needed to biologically function. - used to drown witches in I mean, how long do we want this list to be? Thank god (or any deity of your chosing) we can outsource language to AI soon.
- stephen_g 4y agoThe master one still makes me mad when the git project was being silly about it. From its page on Etymonline, the noun comes from Latin ‘magister’ (n.) "chief, head, director, teacher", with “master’s degree” (which originally qualified somebody to be able to teach) being attested back to the 14th century. As an adjective it was used as far back as the 12th century, coming into words like “master key”, “master craftsman”, “master recording” etc. and “master branch” makes complete sense in this context, especially when git doesn’t have anything named with anything like ‘slave’ branch or anything similar. Being familiar with the various meanings of the word, it completely baffled me that anybody would ever try to link “master branch” to slavery. It makes absolutely no sense…