[gorgabal]

I read a lot of criticism on guides like these. And that makes me wonder, am I the only one that thinks that the 'inclusive' language is simply more clearer?

* blocklist/blacklist, I find blocklist clearer because it does what it says. Same for whitelist

* master/main, same as above, main describes it's function more accurately.

Regarding the genger wording, I have memories as a child where I was confused because for some reason, only the boys where adressed. Not thinking it through, I simply assumed that was intentional. And thus, if a teacher said 'boys, lets go that way!' I would be arguing with the girls since I thought they where not supposed to follow along.

Of course, this is not the case for ALL proposed inclusive language. I simply notice that most of the time, the inclusive alternative is a lot clearer.

[bloak]

Compound nouns in English are usually formed with the first element being a noun or an adjective, not a verb, so the natural way to understand "blocklist" is as a list of blocks, like something you'd find in a file system, or here, for example:

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/Bloc...

My suggestion would be that if you're allergic to "black" for some reason you go with "redlist", giving you "greenlist" and "amberlist" as alternatives. But I don't personally have a problem with "blacklist".

[nix23]

Not all blacklists are blocklists, and what do you call a greylist?

BTW: Blacklist has nothing todo with skincolor:

~1183 AD Andronicus -> "His memory was stored with a black list of the enemies and rivals, who had traduced his merit, opposed his greatness, or insulted his misfortunes"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting

[tablespoon]

> I read a lot of criticism on guides like these. And that makes me wonder, am I the only one that thinks that the 'inclusive' language is simply more clearer?

Even if that were true, you could say the same thing about English spelling reform (which is never going to happen, for good reason).