From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>,
32731@debbugs.gnu.org, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:27:42 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1809241721410.16961@calancha-pc.dy.bbexcite.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1g3tKx-00034x-GY@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
> > If you'll pardon another nit, I suggest using "they" instead of "s?he"
> > which has the advantage of being a pronounceable English word.
>
> Using "they" for a singular antecedent is confusing, and I always find
> it jarring. I won't make a rule against, but I make a point of never
> using that construction. "S?he" avoids the confusion because it is
> clearly singular.
>
> I use a different set of gender-neutral singular pronouns, which I
> think fit better into English. See
> https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html.
How about 'it'? This way we include robots: we shouldn't
discriminate them ;-)
I saw in your site 'he/she'. I rewrote as 'she/he',
otherwise, someone picky might complain about
males been prioritized.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-24 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-13 18:19 bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names Tino Calancha
2018-09-13 19:09 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-13 20:04 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-13 20:38 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-13 23:39 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-15 9:15 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-15 12:42 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-17 17:44 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-17 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-17 19:53 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-18 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-18 23:19 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-19 9:23 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-19 9:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-21 8:37 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-22 9:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-22 13:00 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-23 1:37 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-23 12:01 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-09-24 8:27 ` Tino Calancha [this message]
2018-09-24 19:58 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-24 20:48 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-24 21:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-25 8:14 ` Robert Pluim
2018-09-25 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-25 23:03 ` Richard Stallman
2018-09-29 9:49 ` Tino Calancha
2018-09-24 8:36 ` Tino Calancha
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