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Re: New Front Desk members



On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:05:33PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Joerg Jaspert (joerg@debian.org) [050131 19:00]:
> > On 10186 March 1977, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > 
> > >> > Could you please reword these to use gender-neutral language.  My 
> > >> > suggested solutions for the problematic paragraphs are included below.
> > >> Ugh.  English has no gender-neutral third person singular pronoun,
> > > "they".
> 
> > they is gender-neutral? Leads to very bad-sounding, at least for my ear,
> > things like
> > 
> > - How have they contributed to Debian already?
> - How has your sponsoree contributed ...?

I'm pretty sure that isn't a word.

-- 
Duncan Findlay

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