Re: rewording to avoid sexist language on debian page

[Helen Faulkner <helen_ml_faulkner@yahoo.co.uk>]

(hope you get this Martin, I can't seem to email you directly - it says 
the domain is not found)

Martin Wheeler wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Helen Faulkner wrote:
>
> > Could you please reword the sentence on the following webpage, to 
> > remove the implication that a debian user will always be male.
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals
>
>
> I suggest:
>
>   This manual is for new Linux users, to help such users get acquainted
>   with Linux once they have installed it; or for a new Linux user on a
>   system which someone else is administering.
>
> which obviates the ugly and irritating s/he, and avoids the cumbersome 
> he or she.  (And its emphatically correct form: she or he.)

That is a good way to reword it, in my opinion.

Thanks Martin :)

Helen.