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Various notes on /usr unificationVarious notes on /usr unificationPosted Feb 29, 2012 12:21 UTC (Wed) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)In reply to: Various notes on /usr unification by pboddie Parent article: Various notes on /usr unification
From where I'm sitting, moving to "retire the term 'bikeshedding'" sounds like a request to remove the word from use. All that could be achieved thereby is to cause people to concoct a new word to express the same sentiment (see also the history of words like 'moron', 'idiot', etc). That process would, in turn, probably result in a great deal of bikeshedding and miscommunication until a new status quo was achieved... whereupon someone who has then the same motives that you do now would doubtless demand that we stop using the new word for bikeshedding.
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Various notes on /usr unification Posted Feb 29, 2012 19:45 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
... which is exactly what has happened a few times already with words referring to immigrants in NL. A word is used, it becomes 'a dirty word', the political correct start using another word, that word becomes similarly emotionally laden, new word gets picked, etcetera. Doesn't change a thing...
Various notes on /usr unification Posted Mar 1, 2012 14:34 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] This is called the euphemism treadmill.
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