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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 32731@debbugs.gnu.org, tino.calancha@gmail.com
Subject: bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 08:01:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg7so223.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1g3tKx-00034x-GY@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:37:27 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> [[[ 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.

I find "s?he" jarring due to its non-wordness and "per" confusing
because it's already a word which means something else (I end up having
to read the sentence from the beginning again to parse it right).  I
expect it's mostly a matter of practice though.






  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-23 12:01 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 [this message]
2018-09-24  8:27                         ` Tino Calancha
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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