Masters and slaves must go, according to BBC News 15 June 2020. The software development hub GitHub wants its users to stop using the terms “master” and “slave”, when referring to software systems where one system controls other copies or processes. According to the BBC “The years-old campaign to replace such terms has been given […]
Tag: language
Guardian Newspaper Changes Climate Language
Guardian newspaper changes climate language, explains an article entitled “Why the Guardian is changing the language it uses about the environment” in The Guardian, 17 May 2019. The Guardian newspaper has issued changes to it style guide for articles on climate and environmental issues. The style guide now includes the following directives: “Climate change is […]
Quote: Kel Richards on the English Language
Popular ABC Radio commentator, Kel Richards (Australia), claims the rich and diverse idioms of the English language come from many sources, but two of them dominate: Shakespeare and the Bible. He writes: “From the Bible comes ‘the writing’s on the wall’, ‘the salt of the earth’, ‘turn the other cheek’, ‘the blind leading the blind’, […]
Origin of Race
Did you know race is a word that came into English in the 1500’s via the French (1066 and all that), who took it from the Italian word razza (old Latin), meaning “breeding stock”, which is possibly from the older Arabic ra meaning head (Hebrew ‘rosh’). In the 1500’s it even included different wine “races”. […]