It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology’s problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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    2 months ago

    Because you have already learnt the terms.

    If you were starting out a term like PeripheralInControllerOut would make far more sense than MasterInSlaveOut.

    A lot of industry-specific terms exist because someone didn’t think a lot about naming 80 years ago and picked the first thing that came to mind. Turns out most offensive terms are also not intuitive to newcomers.

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      2 months ago

      You’ve made my point well.

      Absolutely I’ve already learnt it, and I don’t intend to stuff around translating. At first it’s one thing, maybe not cumbersome but then many things become a hassle.

      Master and slave are not in and of themselves offensive words. You just assign offence to them, based on certain specific context, again proving my point.