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==Political Correctness==
This task will be fraught with much angst. Many gender-specific words are now considered derogatory if not vulgar.
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Perhaps, to save space, a common list of words could be constructed and programmers could just read that file. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 08:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
: While the exact list of words would be a problem were we to be talking about doing a definitive translation, if solutions just make it so that the list of words is relatively easy to change (i.e., so that it is clear that the code isn't taking a special position on what the true mapping is) then there should be no special problem; it's just a string processing task that applies many simple transformations to some input text. Anyone who really takes issue with it can be invited to come up with the definitive mapping and samples to demonstrate with (which will keep them busy for a while). –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 12:32, 17 March 2013 (UTC)
===Linguistically impossible task===
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