Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
On Thu 2016-07-21 11:15:57 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object.
>
> I don't think anyone will misinterpret your proposed new wording into
> thinking the TC has a physical chair that someone sits on, but the
> s/Chairmain/Chair/ you apply does to me seem to introduce some
> grammatical ambiguity that could make the text of the constitution less
> clear than it might be.
>
> Since I'm not a native English speaker, I'll assume for now that it's
> just me and that there's no problem; but if other people do feel the
> same way about this, perhaps now's the right time to do something about
> it? Once this GR passes, it's going to be hard to fix that...
I'm a native english speaker. English has far worse ambiguities than
this, and it is easily recognizable for what it is. No one will think
that Debian is proposing that we have special rules for our furniture.
At any rate, we all know what an organization ruled by furniture is
called: a bureaucracy :P
--dkg
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