Inclusive Code Replacement Guide

List of Common Terms and Recommendations for Replacements Socially-charged language: Language that has historical or social roots, often assuming one classification as dominant over another. • Master, slave → primary/main, secondary/replica • Owner, master → lead, manager, expert • Blacklist → deny list, exclusion list, block list, banned list • Whitelist → allow list, inclusion list, safe list • Native feature → core feature, built-in feature • Culture fit → values fit • Housekeeping → cleanup, maintenance Gendered language: Language that either assumes the gender of the users and developers, or that makes assumptions of a gender. • Man hours → labor hours, work hours • Manpower → labor, workforce • Guys (referring to a group) → folks, people, engineers/artists • Girl/Girls (referring to women age 18 and older) → woman/women • Middleman → middle person, mediator, liaison • Gendered pronouns (he/him/his, she/her/hers) → they/them, theirs Ableist language: Language that assumes a certain state of body or mind as superior to others. • Crazy, insane → unpredictable, unexpected • Normal → typical • Abnormal → atypical Ageist language: Language that makes assumptions based on age or that reinforce an age-based stereotype. • Grandfather, grandfathering, legacy → flagship, established, rollover, carryover

На изображении показан англоязычный справочник по замене терминов в коде, которые считаются социально заряженными, гендерными, ableist или ageist, на более нейтральные варианты. Шутка в том, что обычные технические слова предлагается переименовать в политкорректные аналоги; изображение используют как ироничную реакцию на «рефакторинг» терминологии и споры о языке в программировании. EN: The image shows an English-language guide for replacing terms in code considered socially charged, gendered, ableist, or ageist with more neutral alternatives. The joke is that ordinary technical words are being renamed into politically correct equivalents; the image is used as an ironic reaction to terminology “refactoring” and debates about language in programming.

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