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On Sep 17, 2:16pm, Wayne Douglass wrote:
> Subject: Re: Master/Slave
> At 04:07 PM 9/17/97 -0500, David Orr wrote plaintively:
>
> >Maybe I'm just dense. Can someone explain why slave/master analogies are
> >per se insensitive?
>
> Nothing is *ever* insensitive per se. Thinking makes it so.
Hear! Hear! Hear! Hear! Hear!
And a plug for "Know your market. Know your user." Other parts of the world
[country?] and other groups of users would not more or less sensitive to the
choice of Slave/Master or whatever. If you are documenting software for NGO's
you wanna very, very, PC. If you are writing for Truck Drivers, you wanna ...
am I making sense?
Sabahat.
PS: what's the Latin for "user"? I wanna adapt "Gnothi Seauthon" [Socrates]
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