Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD
On Thu Oct 24 13:48:19 2019 Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
>> >>> Even though in some situations "guys" is claimed to be a
>> >>> gender-neutral word, I doubt that everyone thinks of themselves
>> >>> as a "guy". And it will be polite to those people to not make
>> >>> them choose between doing that or feeling excluded.
> [...]
>> This should be on the wiki and on the guidelines for the Debian's
>> mailing list.
>> For non-native English speakers those subtlety are hard to
>> comprehend! :)
>
> There's no consensus for how to handle gender neutrality, even among
> native speakers. The English language isn't built for it. Every
> single approach is wrong, so basically you have to choose which
> wrongness you can tolerate.
>
> "It" is considered offensive, because it implies that the antecedent
> is not a person.
>
> "They" is grammatically horrible because it's clearly a plural
> pronoun, not a singular pronoun.
>
> "He/She" or "him/her" is just clumsy and awkward.
>
> "Sie" or "xie" or similar German-derived words just sound ridiculous
> and made-up, at least to those of us who don't speak German.
>
> Just try to do the best you can. Nobody has any good answers yet.
Back when all this Political Correctness silliness was getting started,
someone suggested "s/h/it".
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