[SystemSafety] New IET report

[Derek M Jones]

Peter,

Looks like the IET have adopted some woke ideas, along
with the ISO, whose:
"Principles and rules for the structure and drafting of ISO and IEC documents"
https://www.iso.org/sites/directives/current/part2/index.xhtml
has been updated by the addition of a new clause: 8.6 Inclusive terminology,

In section 3.2 they have 'newspeaked' unbelievable as
incredible:

"Incredible  Cannot believe that it could occur"

I proposed that improbably be replaced by amazing.

INCITS has released the document:
"INCITS inclusive terminology guidelines".
Section 5 covers identifying negative terms, and Section 6 deals
with “Migration from terms with negative connotations”

Fun and games with English usage:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgzCDbWDHJg&t=5s

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Derek M. Jones           Evidence-based software engineering
blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com