Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 2 months agoBecause you have already learnt the terms.
If you were starting out a term like PeripheralInControllerOut would make far more sense than MasterInSlaveOut.
A lot of industry-specific terms exist because someone didn’t think a lot about naming 80 years ago and picked the first thing that came to mind. Turns out most offensive terms are also not intuitive to newcomers.
hedidwot@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
You’ve made my point well.
Absolutely I’ve already learnt it, and I don’t intend to stuff around translating. At first it’s one thing, maybe not cumbersome but then many things become a hassle.
Master and slave are not in and of themselves offensive words. You just assign offence to them, based on certain specific context, again proving my point.