Re: Crippleware. Really hate the term. Call me a wokey but in future I'm going to use Feature-Limited

On 26/05/27 04:40 AM, p-0 0-h the cat (coder)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27/05/2026 10:24, John C. wrote:
>> The Horny Goat wrote:
>>> John C. wrote:
>>>> p-0 0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
>>>>> occam wrote:
>>>>>> p-0 0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unless anyone has a better idea. I'm all ears and tail.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you are as woke as you say, then you should call them
>>>>>> "alternatively
>>>>>> featured" (cf. 'alternatively abled athletes' for Paralympians .)
>>>>>
>>>>> Fair comment, I did actually take this a bit seriously and played
>>>>> with a
>>>>> few ideas [hard to believe but true] and I did play around with some
>>>>> similar ideas but they didn't really work for me. I should clarify. I
>>>>> think alternatively abled works fine for athletes, before I get
>>>>> cancelled. I'm not really a wokey. Hark, do I hear sighs of relief.
>>>>> Never fear my loyal followers Pooh's not going soft. I just think
>>>>> crippleware sounds a bit awful. I can be a caring cat. It's not
>>>>> illegal
>>>>> FFS.
>>>> Then how about "limitedware"?
>>>
>>> Isn't ALL software "limitedware"?
>>>
>>> After all, the alternative is "omnipotent ware"
>>
>> Apparently the term "crippleware" has been accepted into common usage:
>>
>>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crippleware
>>
>> However, through the process of pejoration (a type of linguistic
>> semantic change where a word's meaning degrades over time, shifting from
>> a positive or neutral connotation to a negative, derogatory, or
>> disparaging one), it has unnecessarily become "offensive" to some
>> people. Often when a term's usage is assumed to be intended to be
>> negative when in fact, it's not.
>>
>> Classic examples of this process include:
>>
>> Silly: Originally meant "happy," "blessed," or "innocent" in Middle
>> English, but it gradually degraded to mean "foolish" or "lacking good
>> sense".
>>
>> Notorious: Once simply meant "widely known," but now means "widely and
>> unfavorably known" for a bad trait or deed.
>>
>> Villain: Started as an entirely neutral term referring to a farm laborer
>> or peasant (villanus), eventually degrading to mean a wicked person or
>> criminal.
>>
>> Pejorative: The adjective/noun form describing words, phrases, or
>> suffixes that express contempt, disapproval, or insult.
>>
>> ...or my favorite:
>>
>> _______________________________________________________________________
>> 1400s–1500s: Negro — Spanish and Portuguese word simply meaning "black
>> in color, derived from the Latin word "niger"
>>
>> 1619 and lat 1700s: Negars / Negars — English and Dutch colonists words
>> which were a phonetic spelling and phonetic adaptation of the
>> Spanish/Portuguese word "negro", rendering how the word sounded to
>> English and Dutch speakers before English orthography (spelling rules)
>> became standardized and used  to denote a person with black-colored skin.
>>
>> Early 1800s: Nigger — Word used by white Americans which was a direct
>> phonetic corruption and mispronunciation of the word negro or the French
>> variant nègre. It functioned literally as a phonetic rendering of the
>> accent and pronunciation of white speakers in the American South, and
>> was the term which eventually evolved into a deliberately derogatory
>> usage.
>>
>> Mid-to-Late 1900s: Nigga — Black Americans. A word which is a direct
>> phonetic spelling variant of the word "nigger", reflecting the
>> non-rhotic pronunciation (dropping the "r" sound at the end of a word)
>> characteristic of African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
>>
>> 1960s: Black — Black American citizens. The literal English adjective
>> for the darkest color, originating from the Old English word blæc
>> (meaning dark or devoid of light), used as a direct translation of the
>> original Spanish/Portuguese descriptor negro.
>>
>>
>> So through this long path of pejoration, all that basically happened was
>> that the original term was simply translated into English.
>> _______________________________________________________________________
>>
>> The Euphemism Treadmill: A phenomenon where inoffensive words are
>> created as polite replacements for taboos or unpleasant concepts, but
>> continuously undergo pejoration over time (e.g., "privy-house" to
>> "latrine" to "water closet" to "toilet" to "bathroom.)
>>
>> Oftentimes, pejoration is deliberately and directly steered by
>> "spin-doctors" in order to socially engineer common consensus. This
>> process was clearly described by George Orwell in his masterpiece,
>> "1984".
>>
>> I'm so offended by all this.
>>
> 
> I wasn't telling anyone what to say, a pretty stupid thing in alt, just
> what I was going to say. Spin doctor, well I guess guilty for trying I
> guess. It's a fair cop. Like it or not as a society we are trying to put
> a more positive spin on disability nowadays, partly because the tech and
> outcomes are better. Cripple is an old word that doesn't feel to me
> anyway that it fits the modern more caring and less brutal approach to
> disability, sure it's part facade but I think we are trying to be better
> people. Apart from Scaly Ron, that is, who's still a c**t.

LOL  80)>

Sorry Pooh, I didn't mean to imply that you were a spin doctor. I was
referring to mega spin doctors like this asshole:

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

who is more or less responsible for the substitution of the term
"climate change" for "global warming". Some scientists are now fighting
back with the use of the term “anthropogenic climate disruption”:

"Technically, global climate change is an umbrella term that covers more
than temperature (e.g., changes in precipitation, pressure, winds, etc.)
and global warming is used for measuring the rise in global
temperatures. If scientists study more than just temperature changes,
they are examining global climate change. My colleagues call the recent
changes to the Earth system “anthropogenic climate disruption”, as the
climate has always changed, but at rates typically much much slower than
humans have caused through adding additional carbon dioxide, methane,
nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone, CFCs, HCFCs, etc. These gasses
capture Earth radiation that is headed out to space and reradiate about
half of it back into the lower part of the atmosphere and the planet,
slowing the outgoing radiation rate. Physics 101 tells us that if more
radiation enters the Earth system than exits it, the temperature rises."

But he's only an example of a mega-spin-doctor. Microsoft has several of
them on their staff, I'm sure.

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time-limited, trial or web wares for me please. I filter crossposts,
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tech corporations from India & industry back from China.