On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 21:12:50 +0000, Julian Mehnle wrote: > > > I do not oppose if you want to but it seems strange to me to use > > > she/herself instead of he/himself when talking in 'general'. > > I wanted to avoid "he/she" and "himself/herself" all over the place. > > Perhaps a different wording could be used too. > The gender neutral version would be "they/their/themselves" etc. (even in > the singular case). I was thinking about that, too. Further down in policy.pod there are some "he" phrases; I'd suggest to change them all to "they/their/themselves". [0] Maybe a native speaker (Jeremiah?) could check the whole text after it's clear _what_ we want to change. Cheers, gregor [0] Although I have to admit that I like the slight irritation caused by using "she" at unexpected places :) -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian: the universal operating system - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Rolling Stones: Claudine
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