Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2020 07:53:04 -0700 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r362422 - head/sbin/dump Message-ID: <604359C2-BEB0-42E8-B6B1-358E6372E6B7@yahoo.com> References: <604359C2-BEB0-42E8-B6B1-358E6372E6B7.ref@yahoo.com>
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Hans Petter Selasky hps at selasky.org wrote on Sat Jun 20 13:27:13 UTC 2020 : > On 2020-06-20 13:10, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> Author: imp > >> Date: Sat Jun 20 04:19:17 2020 > >> New Revision: 362422 > >> URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362422 > >> > >> Log: > >> Increase the whimsy in this file by famring dump's work out to minions. Adjust > >> variables accordingly. Thankfully, we are able to do this without additional > >> banana expenditures. > > This flys in the face of its intent and as a "commit" is more > > racially biased than the code was! > > > > Hi Warner, > > Maybe a stupid question, but is this the correct meaning or description > of minion? > > https://www.google.com/search?q=minions > > minion; plural noun: minions > > a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile > or unimportant one. > "he gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off" > > "Minion" is still a person, like "slave" is, so I must say I agree with > Rodney about this, I don't see how this makes it any better? Can you > explain? Collins | COBUILD Advanced Learner's Dictionary 9th edition : QUOTE min|ion n-COUNT [usu pl, usu poss N] If you refer to someone's minions, you are referring to people who have to do what that person tells them to do, especially unimportant or boring tasks. [LITERARY, DISAPPROVAL] She delegated the job to one of her minions. END QUOTE QUOTE (from descriptions of its COBUILD's terminology) LITERARY: used mainly in novels, poetry, and other forms of literature, e.g., plaintive DISAPPROVAL: The label DISAPPROVAL indicates that you use the word or expression to show that you dislike the person or thing you are talking about. An example of a word with this label is infantile. END QUOTE Minion is not listed as OFFENSIVE, VERY OFFENSIVE, RUDE, or VERY RUDE. (I'll not quote the descriptions.) === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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