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I guess a closer analogy would be an article about file systems called "The sermon of the mount", or something. "The ten commandments of ..." is a popular trop
by pgeorgi 3y ago
I guess a closer analogy would be an article about file systems called "The sermon of the mount", or something.
"The ten commandments of ..." is a popular trope (https://medium.com/byte-sized-code/the-ten-commandments-of-programming-f4b7b0863f85 https://medium.com/byte-sized-code/the-ten-commandments-of-p..., https://itnext.io/the-10-commandments-to-survive-software-development-and-software-projects-28deb6b8fcb2 https://itnext.io/the-10-commandments-to-survive-software-de..., https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html https://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html, and so on and so on), too...
Seems all harmless enough, but I suppose the risk is that when you use imagery of a different culture, you don't know what is held near and dear to people from within that culture, that you might twist out of context in a hurtful way.