Re: DM and pkg-perl (summary, take 1)
Julian Mehnle dijo [Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:12:50PM +0000]:
> > > 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).
Heh, good thing that you said so - I was already translating (in my
head) to passive. "She has to do three things" => "Three things have
to be taken care of". Completely wrong by any Huffman encoding
measure! ;-)
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