Dan Jones<p>I recently read through the <a href="https://www.aswf.io/inclusive-language-guide/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Inclusive Language Guide</a> put out by the Academy Software Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation).</p>
<p>I think this is a great guide, and I went back to it today to check myself on a term I regularly use, but is specifically singled out in this guide as being ableist. The phrase is "sanity check". I assume the ableist implications here are obvious, so I wont' go into that.</p>
<p>But I'm having trouble with an appropriate alternative. The alternatives suggested in the guide (validation check, consistency check, logic check, gut check) don't quite match up for me.</p>
<p>I would normally use this phrase like this: "Hey, Vanessa, could you have a look at my code? I think I've got everything here, but something is bugging me about it; could give me a sanity check?" Everyone I work with understands that usage. By it, I mean, "Can you make sure that I didn't miss something obvious?"</p>
<p>For now, I think I'm just going to say that: "Can you make sure that I didn't miss something obvious?" But it's pretty wordy, and I'd like to find a more concise way to say that that would be easily understood by other developers without having to use all of those words.</p>
<p>Any suggestion?</p>
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