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Re: At peace with Debian (was: This is the last war...)



> No professional in their right mind...

Argh! "s/he" may be distracting but is at least arguably not gramatically wrong. "Professional" is singular; "their" is plural. You cannot use one as a substitute for the other.

Guess what: no matter how much you agonized over it when you were young first discovered feminism, you can't eliminate the "generic masculine" construction in English without distracting your reader or being wrong.


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