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New words to consider #8

Open jzb opened 3 years ago

jzb commented 3 years ago

I have some new words I'd like to add for consideration per a recent AP Style announcement about not using terms like "crazy" "deranged" or other mental health terms (as well as the converse - using terms like "sane" to describe defaults, for example). What's the mechanism for doing this? Should we create a separate list of terms?

jzb commented 3 years ago

I suspect that it's pretty common to use phrases like "sane defaults" and so forth that may seem ablest that we could avoid.

quaid commented 3 years ago

I'm +1 for some sort of expanded lists, as I'm interested in having a single source to reference in community conversations. This has come up for me a few times around martial/language of violence in open source community documentation.

Do we want to have a separate file for different categories, and some type of index/table of contents file?

If we use mark-up specific to terms and definitions such as Asciidoc's term:: definition, that simpler form could work for a single category to obviate the use of a Big Table of Doom.

Anyway, I'd like to help.

jzb commented 3 years ago

@rbowen Any thoughts here?

AshtonDavis commented 3 years ago

IMHO if a tagging system is at all possible, it would be nice to correlate these into higher level categories as well as additional metadata. It might be wise to find terms by Jargon, Idiom/Metaphor, Colloquialisms, etc, as well as categories such as genderism, ablism, racism, etc (or martial language, as stated above)