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Change: "(Business/Chair)man" to "(Business/Chair)person" #8659

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@Wuzzy2 Wuzzy2 commented Feb 9, 2021

Motivation / Problem

Fixes #8601.

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Changes the player ranking (for leaderboard/highscore) names "Businessman" to "Businessperson", and "Chairman" to "Chairperson". This will make all rankings gender-unspecific for all possible rankings/titles.

Limitations

It's the simplest possible bugfix for that issue (literally just two lines). I don't think it has any real limitation.

Note that most English ranking names are already (and always have been) gender-unspecific, like "Tycoon" or "Engineer". So it's those two words I changed that stood out.

There has been another proposal for fixing this, by adding "gendered" support for all ranking names. This is because in some languages, words for persons are always gendered. But remember, most rankings in English were already gender-unspecific. Russian translators, who said that the language "forces" them to use gendered words, have simply used the "male" versions of the word so far (again: most English ranking names are already gender-less). I did decide against this simply because it is too complex. Also, 2Tall2Tyler has argued: “In the US, the trend has been toward gender-neutral titles rather than simply changing the suffix '-man' to '-woman.' For example, here's a document by the American Psychological Association (the 'APA' in APA Style citations) listing Guidelines for Unbiased Language.”

I think practically speaking, just changing the two words to "-person" is the simplest and best option for now. Translators clearly have already figured out a way how to translate the many other gender-unspecific rankings so far, so they would be able to deal with two new words as well.

Rationale

It's a bugfix that fixes this bug: You can play as a female CEO, but be ranked as a “Businessman” or “Chairman”. The "-person" was chosen for simplicity. Wikipedia knows both the terms "businessman" and "businessperson". Those words might not be too common yet (I'm not an native English speaker), but they definitely exist and were not invented by me.

Therefore, changing the "Businessman" and "Chairman" literally fixes this bug.

Checklist for review

Some things are not automated, and forgotten often. This list is a reminder for the reviewers.

  • The bug fix is important enough to be backported? (label: 'backport requested')
  • This PR affects the save game format? (label 'savegame upgrade')
  • This PR affects the GS/AI API? (label 'needs review: Script API')
    • ai_changelog.hpp, gs_changelog.hpp need updating.
    • The compatibility wrappers (compat_*.nut) need updating.
  • This PR affects the NewGRF API? (label 'needs review: NewGRF')

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Wuzzy2 commented Feb 9, 2021

Correction: When I said “I did decide against this simply because it is too complex.”, I was referring to “introducing support for ‘gendering’ all rankings”, NOT to the Russian translation! xD

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Thanks for this change. It is highly appreciated.
You might want to quote the wikipedia link from the description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairperson

@glx22 glx22 merged commit 27b4d63 into OpenTTD:master Feb 17, 2021
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Female CEOs might get the title of “Businessman” or “Chairman”
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