What's troll-y is claiming that you don't see how that language could annoy anyone. There is a perfectly suitable gender-neutral word that makes exactly the same point. It's 2013 ffs.
When I read stuff like "stewardess", I think old-timer or non-native-English speaker.
And yes I realize this is
Why couldn't a male flight attendant say this?
Hey I got an idea, let's create some properly rigid and stodgy standard that sucks the life out of things and in 10 years pine for the old days when any little punk with some gumption could pick up a browser and start coding for the web using any of a plethora of techniques. Security, standardization, predictability, harrumph harrumph!
Gulp. If only we had some kind of north warning system with long and short range radar stations near the arctic circle located mostly at sites that we should have built back in the 50s. But where are we gonna get something like that on such short notice??
Oh the memories! Except that N. Korea doesn't have any desert but does actually have WMD. Other than that, it's bang on!
Yes, because the average user knows the difference, am I rite?
There is a car analogy here somewhere, and it involves blaming the client for not having a Masters in Automotive engineering.
In Soviet Russia, the 90s are called by you.
Drunk driving
Smoking indoors in public spaces
Leaded gasoline
Lead paint
Asbestos home insulation
All banned and and no longer socially acceptable.
Yes, indeed, we should all drive tanks, wear breathing equipment, and install lockable trap-door mouth pieces on our toddlers. Won't anyone think of the casual laser user???
And, finally, I must take massive umbrage with the Google tooltip that says "Douglas Adams' 61st birthday". I'm sorry, but once someone dies, they can no longer have birthdays after their death. It should be "61st anniversary of his birth", but I guess that's too long and not so catchy. I now call them "deathdays" when Google does this
Say what? Everyone has exactly one birthday unless you were born a night.
ociate once told me.
Somebody ported some code and it's buggy and it's just another day on da net!
While my assuming that you know what you're talking about is probably unwise, the fact that you two are dickering over overly prescriptive usage and what is actually not an error bodes ill.
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While my assuming that you know what you're talking about is probably unwise, the fact that you ___________________________ bodes ill.
Humans have always been jerks who ignore signs. Sometimes we need a good whupping to make us think.
Europa, here we come. Yeeha!
Yeah and what happens when the car runs out of gas in your analogy, smart guy?
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. - Andy Finkel, computer guy
