Re: Replacing "master" and "slave" terminology

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

Any time clear, unambiguous, single-syllable words are 
replaced with less clear, ambiguous, multisyllabic words, 
it can only be another step backwards for the field of
communications, and therefore, the whole of humanity. :)

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael West" <mbwest -at- bigpond -dot- com>
> a) Master unit; b) Secondary unit
> 
> 
> However, I don't understand the queasiness over the word "slave". The
> practice of slavery, which is at least as old as civilisation, and will
> continue into the foreseeable future, is of course another matter. 

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