On Fri, 17.10.08 20:09, Andrew Parker (andrewparker@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > I don't understand why this is an issue. Uber has no negative > connotations in English, does it? Do we have to have all our words > vetted against every language before we can use them? I already mentioned that you can never be entirely safe in choosing words that offend nothing and nobody. But for you I am happy to repeat myself: "You never can be entirely safe, there are always words that in some languages or to some people may be offending or have a questionnable connotation. However, since Nazism is almost universally agreed to be without comparison and practically a superlative of evil there are more than enough reasons to stay away from terminology related to Nazism." So no, I am not asking to carefully check every single word we use against every single language and its possible connotations in that language. All I am asking for is that we try to stay away from one of the most extreme things you can associate your words with: Nazism. I don't want to be no word police, but uhm, this one was a bit too obvious to me. Also, I am not sure why we really need to discuss this further. Toshio already agreed to changing this term and it is not too much work. So let's just do it and forget about it and not continue this discussion here. I am here for the code, not for discussing Nazism. Thanks. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
