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Re: sexist language in debian instructions/documentation



On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:41:08AM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> hey, that's cool.  there's a german way to do the unisex thing in
> referring to gendered nouns -- die AktuarInnen, iirc.  or something
> like that.  out of curiosity, does that construction sound as clunky
> to a native german speaker as he/she appears to grate on some of the
> native english ears here?

It depends. Both on the text and on whom you ask ;)

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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