Re: New Front Desk members

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* 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 ...?

and so on.


Cheers,
Andi
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