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Bug#263084: Please change sexist language in debian (English) webpages



On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:26:29PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Aug 2004, Tobias Toedter wrote:
> >    "This is to prevent the Project Secretary from missing a proposal
> >    in the huge volumes of mail generated on some of our lists and to
> >    prevent them from having to subscribe to each and every list
> >    created by the Project."
> > 
> > The Project Secretary is just one person, not a group. Is it still
> > correct to use "them"? I'm sorry to bother you with this, it's just
> > that I've never seen or heard such sentences.
> 
> That's definetly suboptimal in this case.

Why?

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Matt Kraai            kraai@ftbfs.org            http://ftbfs.org/

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