<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Nice investigating Nathan,</div><div><br></div><div>I would be open to using artificial instead of human_made.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Would it be best to change the proposal or start a second proposal?</div><div>Change man_made= to artificial=</div><div><br></div><div>Rob</div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 21:14, nathan case <<a href="mailto:nathancase@outlook.com">nathancase@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Pros and cons aside, “human-made” is not a term that is in current widespread usage. As a native English GB speaker, I find it clunky and somewhat distracting.<br>
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A better gender neutral term might be “artificial”, which is already a synonym for “man-made” and is already widely used. <br>
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Indeed, the Handbook of Nonsexist Writing suggests: "artificial, handmade, hand-built, synthetic, manufactured, fabricated, machine-made, and constructed" as options instead of man-made. Presumably the majority (if not all) of OSM "man-made" tags relate to objects which are not naturally occurring. Therefore "artificial" seems to hold.<br>
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Other sources: <br>
<a href="https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/</a> <br>
<a href="https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html</a><br>
<a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made</a><br>
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An issue may arise if artificial is already being used as a tag however.<br>
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Best,<br>
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Nathan<br>
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