Re: Speaking of Improper Terminology

Subject: Re: Speaking of Improper Terminology
From: Larry Weber <larry_weber -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:32:24 PDT

Don Timmerman, dtimmerman -at- anl -dot- gov wrote:

>Why? The use of master and slave as quoted below fits the definitions
>provided by my 1993 Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, tenth
>edition.
>
Simple. Our users might go into convulsions after reading a word
reminiscent of 19th century labor practices.

Larry

let the flames begin...

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