It's been said that Google bosses have asked UK staff to stop using common terms including 'man hours' and 'you guys'.
The US tech goliath set out a new inclusive language dossier which includes modifications to vocabulary.
Several words targetted by Google chiefs include, 'whitelist', Blackhole', 'blacklist' and 'black box', as well as 'chubby', and to abstain from describing people or things as 'crazy, bonkers or mad'.
Tory MP Nigel Mills called the changes woke nonsense and that he didn't know where people found the time to come up with this sort of thing, and that we shouldn't be ditching words and phrases used for a generation just because some snowflakes might get impacted.
Meanwhile, a Google worker told a newspaper outlet that staff had ignored the guide and concentrated on getting on with their jobs.
They revealed that they were much too busy to be worried about whether some totally innocuous phrase that's been used for years might upset someone somewhere.
Google has said its dossier only provided editorial guidelines for writing clear and consistent Google-related developer documentation.
A newspaper outlet has reached out to Google for more information on the latest guidelines.
It's not the first time the search engine has lurched into wokery either.
Last year, Google launched an inclusive language function designed to sidestep the use of politically incorrect words.
Users typing 'landlord' will see a warning that it 'may not be inclusive to all readers' with the suggestion they should try 'property owner' or 'proprietor' instead.
The word 'humankind' was a suggested alternative to what the online giant seemingly sees as the controversial term 'mankind'.
Gender-specific terms such as 'policemen' or 'housewife' were also replaced by 'police officers' and 'stay-at-home spouse', according to the new Google Document style programme.
I'm sure that people who rent out properties routinely describe themselves as a 'landlord' and would be surprised that they're actually being politically incorrect, but then I'd doubt that they would care and would be more concerned about treating their tenants fairly, even though we do know that some don't actually care at all.
I mean, why don't we just prohibit the use of English completely? And here's a message to Google. You guys are crazy, mad and bonkers and should be blacklisted because after all, what gives them the right to ban language? It looks like lunatics have taken over, and this is manifestly Orwellian.
Woke is an adjective emanating from African American Vernacular English (AAVE) meaning 'alert to racial prejudice and discrimination'.
Beginning in the 2010s, it came to encompass a broader understanding of social inequalities such as sexism and has also been used as shorthand for American Left views concerning identity politics and social justice, such as the notion of white privilege and slavery reparations for African Americans.
Before that, not one person was ever bothered or offended, yet a few loons suddenly made a noise, they were accommodated and they pushed to try to end any meaning that had a reference to sex, colour et cetera, and now long are the days gone by, when life was just easier and we could have a laugh without being sued, and now these pathetic organisation's are gradually removing any expression from our vocabulary that has been expressed for generations.
All this gibberish is just fuelling an already antagonistic and separated society when in fact, we should be cultivating a more harmonious and inclusive society, and Google must have used a lot of manhours to create this kind of blacklist of phrases, have they nothing better to do with their time?
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