From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: noloader@gmail.com, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: What is the Emacs "nonportable dumper" catastrophe?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 08:54:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-9bzGXVgO6SgOvdpW0dHx4XMP3c_L3Fu7h+_1aEM2cFag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1i8gkx-0004zl-QP@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 04:16, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:
> > The author of the comment prefixed it with "<troll>", so I guess they
> > might actually agree with you.
>
> using a plural pronoun for
> one person? That is always a confusing practice, so I wish people
> would avoid it. See
> https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html.
I know you prefer "per" for this, but I find that much more confusing
(because it's already a word which means something else, and (since
the reader may assume the non-capitalization is a typo) sometimes a
name (short for "Perry", or, per Wikipedia: "a Scandinavian masculine
given name")).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per_(given_name)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-13 12:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-10 1:44 What is the Emacs "nonportable dumper" catastrophe? Jeffrey Walton
2019-09-10 2:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-10 3:06 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-13 8:16 ` Richard Stallman
2019-09-13 12:54 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-09-14 5:33 ` Richard Stallman
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