Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
Barring sophistry, it is no more offensive, than a master key for a
physical lock, a Master's degree, a master crafsman (rather than a
novice or an apprentice), mastering a skill, ...
But, "master/mister/mistress" implies that there are servants
or slaves and:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servus
These words originate from servus, the Latin word for
servant or slave.
In Roman era, all the servants should have been slaves.
Since "master nameserver" and "secondary nameserver" are not a natural
pairing,
I'm afraid you are ignoring history, though short, in US that
blacks were and, maybe, still are, treated as second class
^^^^^^
citizens long after enslavement was illegalized.
See, for example, speech by Martin Luther King, Jr.:
http://okra.stanford.edu/transcription/document_images/Vol05Scans/25Sept1960_TheNegroandtheAmericanDream,ExcerptfromAddressatt.pdf
It is a trite yet urgently true observation that if America
is to remain a firstclass nation it cannot have secondclass
citizens.
According to your theory, you should totally avoid saying "second"
or "secondary".
Masataka Ohta
