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I still can't get over this. The word master has like 10 definitions and because one of them is part of a distasteful part of history that has nothing to do with the way it was used in this context, they inconvenience everyone.

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>is part of a distasteful part of history

...of one of the english speaking countries

I think you mean "of literally every country in the entire world".

I don't like taking things literally, but in this case that would be necessary, as it's the whole point. "Master" is an English word. If it isn't, "main" is primarily translated to "haupt" in German, and we all know what a Haupttruppführer was, so that should go too, as should every other word that possibly has a negative connotation somewhere in the world.

Minitru is hard at work yeet'ing all the double-plus-ungood words out of the lexicon for sure

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