Re: [DEB-USER] /he/ vs. /they/ (was Re: At peace with Debian)
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 09:22, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 20:05, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:05:00PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:58:20PM -0500, Gary Turner wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 19:01:30 -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 05:24:39PM -0700, David Wright wrote:
> [snip]
> > The truly amazing thing is that anyone would bother to attempt the
> > "de-sexing" of the language in the first place. Seems an example of
> > people trying to find something to be upset about, so they can hang an
> > "aggrieved" sign on themselves, and make another attempt at social
> > engineering.
>
> In a very wealthy country, there are those who can take the time to
> do unproductive things and find ways of having others support them.
>
When I write docs I try to make it genderless, but I don't bother trying
to change old documentation unless a rewrite is due anyway.
Sven
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