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I thought it looked like a stealthy power ranger

You had me for a moment there

There are dozens of us!

But that definition from Wikipedia doesn’t contain the contested part of the definition, that it is a “transitional system”

It’s okay for people with bad takes to be here too - that’s why the fediverse is special

Two-party voting systems babyyyyyy

See also: the UK, most ex-British colonies

Super+X, I gang

Yeah it had an almost sane reason initially - it was an investment bank, so it was designed to model the relationships between types of assets for simulations. But over the years they just got into the habit of using it for everything. It was somewhat like python, but with c-like syntax.

The 2nd language was a haskell-style functional language (but without all the things that make Haskell cool) that was meant to be used for modelling and building internal APIs on all the data that was shared across departments. It was absolutely horrendous.

My last job had not one, but two programming languages they had created in house over the last couple of decades.

One of them was the primary development language for the whole corporation.

Fuck yeahhh

And part of what makes it so good is that it isn’t afraid to criticise leftists as well (like the black haircare episode where Jonah is jonahing) - it’s not just a “haha other side bad” show

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Well yeah that would be a great metaphor, if everyone in Britain referred to Britain as the Carribbean. But they don’t, so it’s deeply dumb.

I don’t understand what you’re caught up on.

British people use the word caucasian to mean white, and that is documented in British dictionaries.

I appreciate you take personal issue with that usage, but that’s life, you don’t control the English language.

Do you think the concept of race doesn’t exist in Britain?!

I’ll tell you it most definitely does, hell we practically invented systemic racism. Come to London and tell a black Brit that they aren’t black and we’ll see how that one goes down.

Just because words that look like “Caucasian” mean the other thing in German and french doesn’t change it’s English meaning. Congratulations on your language knowledge, but are not the genius you think you are.

I speak English, as an Englishman. Caucasian means white in British English.

But your sources have multiple flaws:

• firstly, they’re all American, and so have no relevance to European English dialects
• secondly, they did not say “Caucasian does not mean white European”, they say variations on “it is not the best term to use in academic literature”

So my source - despite being a highly reputable entity whose entire reason to exist is to define words - is “incorrect”?

“Could of” is different, because the social consensus is that it’s grammatically incorrect. Your argument is more like arguing that antisemitic refers to Arabs as well, just because Semitic includes Arabic peoples. Just because a term is derived from another doesn’t mean that it permanently must only be understood by its etymological roots.

What happened to “show me one dictionary”?

Looks like your goalposts have grown legs.

So, the common usage in both the country with the greatest number of English speakers AND the country the language originated in is incorrect? Because crispy_kilt says so?

Language is a socially negotiated system, so what the word means to the people who use it is what the words mean.

That paper is about what terminology should be used in academic work, who gives a fuck for people talking on lemmy?

The scale of annoyingness:

Pedants -> incorrect pedants -> incorrect pedants who insist they’re right, regardless of the evidence in front of them

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I additionally linked to the specifically British edition of Collins as well for your benefit, which is, in fact, a dictionary. Seriously, trust me, if you go up to 5 Brits and ask them what Caucasian means, they will almost certainly all answer “white”.

Wikipedia, also, is not a dictionary.

It’s also pretty damn rude to classify the American usage as “incorrect”, you’re not the arbiter of what “real” English is.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=caucasian+meaning

Oh wow, that first result sure does say exactly that

Edit: interestingly, lmgtfy actually gets a different response to googling it directly in the UK for me 🤔

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/caucasian#:~:text=Caucasian in British English&text=adjective-,1.,noun

Thank you for your assumption that I am not, in fact, European.

However, given I’m from one of the few European countries that speak English as their primary language, I can categorically say you’re wrong.

You’re right about where the Caucasus is, but the generally accepted meaning - both in the US and Europe - is white European ancestry, not just those from the Caucasus.

Ooh I didn’t know about the systemd integration, that actually sounds like a really smart approach.

To be honest, until right now I’d pretty much written off podman as docker 2