On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 04:02:26PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > On Thu 2016-07-21 11:15:57 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object. > > > > I don't think anyone will misinterpret your proposed new wording into > > thinking the TC has a physical chair that someone sits on, but the > > s/Chairmain/Chair/ you apply does to me seem to introduce some > > grammatical ambiguity that could make the text of the constitution less > > clear than it might be. > > > > Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'll assume for now that it's > > just me and that there's no problem; but if other people do feel the > > same way about this, perhaps now's the right time to do something about > > it? Once this GR passes, it's going to be hard to fix that... > > I'm a native english speaker. English has far worse ambiguities than > this, and it is easily recognizable for what it is. No one will think > that Debian is proposing that we have special rules for our furniture. > > At any rate, we all know what an organization ruled by furniture is > called: a bureaucracy :P > > --dkg > And of course the staff will ensure everything runs smoothly. (Those t-shirt with "staff" printed on the back always make me giggle, as well as the signs "staff only") Cheers, zou -- "Nessuna conquista è per sempre. C'è sempre qualcuno che è interessato a toglierla. Per cui resistere non è solo un dovere, ma una necessità dei giovani, altrimenti non si va avanti!" Maria Cervi
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