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Consider speciesist language in documentation#42100
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Proposal
Add awareness of speciesist language -- animal-derived idioms that normalize violence toward animals -- to Bootstrap's documentation practices.
Bootstrap's documentation reaches millions of developers worldwide. As the most popular CSS framework, writing conventions here influence the entire front-end ecosystem.
Common terms and alternatives
| Instead of | Use |
|---|---|
| "kill two birds with one stone" | "accomplish two things at once" |
| "beat a dead horse" | "belabor the point" |
| "monkey patch" | "runtime patch" |
| "guinea pig" | "test subject" |
| "canary" | "preview" |
These alternatives are more precise and more accessible to non-native English speakers -- important for Bootstrap's global community.
Precedent
- master-main (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- whitelist/blacklist-allowlist/blocklist (Google, Apple, IETF)
- master/slave-primary/replica (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis)
- Inclusive Naming Initiative
References
- Hagendorff et al. 2023, DOI: 10.1007/s43681-023-00380-w
- Open-Paws/speciesist-language-scanner
This is about awareness for new writing, not a retroactive overhaul.
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