I recently read through the Inclusive Language Guide put out by the Academy Software Foundation (part of the Linux Foundation).

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.

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.

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?"

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.

Any suggestion?

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@danjones000 perhaps "does this pass the sniff test?" riffing off the idea that bad code smells?

Thank you for the pointer to the guide, I will give that a read later today!