On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:14:47PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > It seems useful or sensible to balance obvious unjustifiable male > defaults over time, mostly as a consequence of other actions (such as > delegates being more representative). A simplistic purge of > third-person-singular pronouns and the "-man" morpheme seems to make > it harder to read for everyone. I've been converting "he", "him", "his", and "himself" to "they", "them", "their", and "themself" respectively. I don't think the new version is harder to read. > Is there clear support that there's > benefit from a purge? Helen stated that the original version is discouraging; changing the terminology presumably makes it less so. -- Matt Kraai kraai@ftbfs.org http://ftbfs.org/ 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-women/2004/08/msg00003.html
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