svn commit: r362422 - head/sbin/dump

[Mark Millard]

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.)


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