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Yeah I feel like this document forbids a lot of fun language for no good reason. Kebab case and hamburger menu for example.

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Today's "fun" is tomorrow's microaggression. In the dynamic modern society, the only way to be respectful of future marginalised societies is to prohibit "fun". In case of doubt, if any word you used felt like something that could be construed as playful, please sign up for diversity and inclusion office hours and seek legal approval.

Edit: my joke is not not endorsed as an official mandatory non-negotiable community code of conduct by my employer (who happens to be pictured in TFA), pinky swear!

Problematic. Missing the mark. lrem "has some growing to do". lrem "identified ways they can do better".

I have your canned criticism and responses ready for you if you need them.

To those who don't touch pork/ham, touching a hamburger menu isn't great...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger#Etymology_and_termin...

    > The term hamburger originally derives from Hamburg,
    > Germany's second-largest city. Hamburger in German is
    > the demonym of Hamburg, similar to frankfurter and wiener,
    > names for other meat-based foods and demonyms of the cities 
    > of Frankfurt and Vienna (in German Wien) respectively.

A Google search for Wiener suggests it isn't something one really wants to touch either!

I don't eat pork, and the work hamburger is not offensive to me. Plus, it comes from Hamburg.

I'm tired of virtue signallers telling others what to be offended about and what not to be offended about.

Just because it has the prefix “ham”? Can muslims use ham radio or hamming codes or hammers or hammocks or visit Hamburg?

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