On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 03:24:10PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote: > > and 20 years from now we're sitting on exactly the same mail thread and argue > about replacing min and sec. > > That's fine. Language evolves. As do standards. Nobody will ever need more than 640Kb. Nobody will ever need more than 32bits of IP address. Why should a document be different? But that's different. The problem is to recurringly changing the words for the same subject because a prior word was abused AFTER it was choosen to address the subject. There is a good amountd of justice for this euphemism treadmill when a new word is picked as a euphemism without the problematic nature of the underlying subject to be resolved. But in our case the situation is different. Our subjects are never the ones with problematic subject matter. Its only that our words are typically metaphors for subjects where either the original subject is problematic, or the use of the word for the original subject has attained _some_ negative connotations. Cheers --- tte@xxxxxxxxx
