On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 09:22:49AM -0400, j.s. wrote: > On 6/18/20 9:50 PM, Rahul Goswami wrote: > > So +1 on "slave" being the problematic term IMO, not "master". > > but you cannot have a master without a slave, n'est-ce pas?
Well, yes. In education: Master of Science, Arts, etc. In law: Special Master (basically a judge's delegate). See also "magistrate." None of these has any connotation of the ownership of one person by another. (It's a one-way relationship: there is no slavery without mastery, but there are other kinds of mastery.) But this is an emotional issue, not a logical one. If doing X makes people angry, and we don't want to make those people angry, then perhaps we should not do X. > i think it is better to use the metaphor of copying rather than one of > hierarchy. language has so many (unintended) consequences ... Sensible. -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 www.ulib.iupui.edu
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