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- AM, PM

To be consistent with Material Design, use all-caps, no periods, and a space before.

Recommended: 9:00 AM

I'm gonna be snarky and say to just use 24h time in developer documentation.

- APIs; not API's

This isn't a style decision. It's basic grammar

- authN, authZ

Don't use. Instead, use authentication or authorization.

But i18n and a11y is fine it seems?

-manmade, man made

Avoid using gendered terms. Instead use a word like artificial, manufactured, or synthetic.

"Man" refers to a person, or specifically an individual of the human species in this context.

-master

Use with caution. Never use in conjunction with slave.

Finally, a rational decision.

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As an European I find use of AM and PM anywhere at all offensive. It's a symbol of American imperialism. Google should immediately update this style guide and promote the use of international standards as default.

Hah. But seriously — I really find it offensive how many apps and features, especially those coming from Google are hardcoded to use °F, AM/PM, DD/MM/YYYY, weekdays starting on Sundays, and imperial measurement units.

I have all my devices set to British English, since I can't deal with broken Croatian translations, but I'm trying to get away from these ass-backwards formats that only 4% of the world's population uses. Sadly, that 4% is responsible for almost all of the media and core software we consume, so I guess we're stuck with it.

Seriously. The Google Search console is hardcoded to display graphs with the time axis like 4/3/21 4/8/21 4/13/21 and I always need to stare at them a while to tell what sort of timeframe I am looking at. The same issue is present on so many Google products. Groups is especially bad because I find an old message with a date like 3/12/8 and have absolutely no idea when it is from.

> DD/MM/YYYY

Did you mean to write MM/DD/YYYY?

Yes. It's so wrong that I can't even write it properly.

I find MM/DD/YYYY offensive, not because it's American, but because it's so damn illogical.

That's really the amazing condescension in all of this that they're too self centered to see. Silicon Valley is trying to redefine global terms and symbols because it makes them feel better about a bad American political situation and history. They can't see the forest for the trees and they don't care, because at the end of the day they get to pat themselves on the back and virtue signal.

How dare you? What's next, the metric system?

One thing that particularly annoyed me about their en-gb vs en-us spelling example was "tonne" vs "ton". They are different!

I do wonder if America will _ever_ make the switch to the metric system. The French managed it in 1799; backwards Britain had mostly managed it by 1972; and yet working with US engineers means that I occasionally find myself converting units like slugs or "circular mils" into SI units for FEM modelling. Wolfram alpha is a godsend. I just really, really hate the US unit system with a passion!

As someone who is pretty indifferent about metric and US customary units on a day to day basis, the one area as a onetime mechanical engineer I think is pretty annoying is US mass/force units in engineering calculations.

Technically, America is metric in that our units are based on metric units now. So 1 yard is defined as 0.9144 meter and 1 pound (avoirdupois) is 0.45359237 kg[0].

0: https://www.ngs.noaa.gov/PUBS_LIB/FedRegister/FRdoc59-5442.p...

For developer docs as a bare minimum.

Replacing "Man" with "Person" definitely feels more inclusive, and costs nothing. And using the same word to mean "Half of the human race" and "All of the human race" definitely feels like one of those things where the other half are going to feel like they're not full members...

I prefer to acknowledge that tradeoffs are inherent, and that there is some cost to e.g. replacing "man" with "person", and that the benefit (inclusivity) is worth the cost (breaking "backwards compatibility", upsetting some people) and hopefully the risk (these kinds of changes may not really grow inclusivity in a material way, and may take attention away from more substantial and radical efforts).

Who is actively upset by this?

I understand some people don't like change, but if changing "man" to "person" upsets someone then it rather feels like they don't like sharing.

Probably no one really "minds" or is "upset" about this. As if they are now upset that their gender or race is now being slighted by the fact that we don't want to use male words for common-day things.

What we are upset about is that this is being "forced" on people (Soon, watch. Probably already happening in schools, though). And likewise, that it's being done under the guise of some sort of greater-good when it seems rather petty and won't really change the day to day issues facing women and black people.

We're also upset that this is effectively taking a step in the opposite direction to real equality.

Additionally, I could care less that we stop using "man" and "white" etc. What does bother me is that there is this nagging feeling that this is being done purposefully to upset certain groups (which we can then turn around and say "look, see, they don't like their white/male power being dismantled, they are race/sex-ist and look how much we're defeating sex/race-ism!").

Teaching people to change their language is super expensive. Instead of just writing down the words that comes to mind, they now have to run every word in a hash table to see if it is good, and then if it comes up bad they have to invent a new term or look up what the new term ought to be. Multiply this with however many people has to learn the new terms and you understand why there is so much pushback to changing language. Changing one word is fine, but if there is no pushback people just continue asking for more and more changes as can be seen in the document we are talking about.

Everyone already knows that "manmade" is an inclusive term, if women or children makes something it is still "manmade" so there is no need to update the term. If you say that wording matters, then you also should be against the term "toxic masculinity" since it is a very aggravating term, there are so many less aggravating terms that could be used for that phenomena.

Edit: If you don't understand how expensive these things are try to think about why USA still uses AM/PM and the imperial measuring systems. It is trivial to switch on all new products, right? Well, of course that isn't true, changing language is as I said super expensive which is why it isn't done often.

Virtue signallers working in tech, and Twitter.

There's a huge overlap there.

What bothers me is how much this is an VERY regional issue, specifically, USA-based, yet it's being imported wholesale across the entire Western world, when it doesn't make any sense.

It's sad seeing locals making BLM protests when we have <10 black people in the entire country, or German bloggers who suddenly find themselves questioning if noun articles are the cause of toxic patriarchy.

> What bothers me is how much this is an VERY regional issue, specifically, USA-based, yet it's being imported wholesale across the entire Western world, when it doesn't make any sense.

The empire defines the rules, the provinces follow. I find it positive because it makes these relationships very obvious, nothing is hidden.

Ah yes. Huperson. Woperson. Personned. Persondate. Personual. Personscript. Personufacture.

“manual”, “manuscript”, and “manufacture” use a different root, from Latin “manus” ~ “hand”. Handbook, handwriting, and handmade, more or less, though of course the modern compounds have somewhat different meanings from those.

What about people who don't have hands?

Exactly. This is pure ableist repression.

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