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barbazoo
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Kodak has no plans to cease, go out of business, o...
People love their ingroup terminology and quirks. Like that a power cable connecting the RV is a shoreline (eyeroll) and that ships are female (double eyeroll).
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Many languages use gendered nouns today including German and Spanish; the few remaining in English are a holdover from centuries past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_English
soulofmischief
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What's wrong with a standardized vernacular or domain-specific language?
cyral
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This particular one gives the opposite meaning to anyone unfamiliar with the term
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