From: ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Cl??ment Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
Subject: grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:08:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170317110804.fxe6s2dpiw4pvwu5@abyayala> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170317053620.GA16076@jocasta.intra>
John Darrington transcribed 1.1K bytes:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:45:27PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>
> ps Cl??ment: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the gender and/or
> prefered pronoun of a person :)
>
>
> ... according to some. - but most linguists, and many orators (the president of
> the Free Software Foundation being one of them) consider this to be a misuse of
> the English language and refuse to (mis)use these words for such a purpose.
>
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You keep mentioning this every time it comes up. It's annoying, really.
Linguists aren't the central authority of a language.
If it's bothering you that much, this is on topic as it is in the
documentation of Guix, and there are several ways to express gender
neutral pronouns in some languages. "According to linguists" what a
larger group of people in Germany uses is also a misuse of the language.
Do they care? No.
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2017-02-17 16:37 [PATCH 0/2] Openssh service patches Clément Lassieur
2017-02-17 16:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] services: openssh: Use PAM in sshd by default Clément Lassieur
2017-02-17 16:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: openssh: remove deprecated 'RSAAuthentication' option Clément Lassieur
2017-02-17 17:18 ` [PATCH 0/2] Openssh service patches ng0
2017-02-17 17:45 ` Julien Lepiller
2017-02-18 11:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] services: openssh: Enable PAM Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 11:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: openssh: Remove deprecated 'RSAAuthentication' option Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 15:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-18 18:32 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-19 18:54 ` ng0
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 0/4] Openssh service patches Clément Lassieur
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 1/4] services: openssh: Enable PAM Clément Lassieur
2017-02-22 9:22 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-22 21:07 ` [PATCH] " Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 2/4] services: openssh: Remove deprecated options Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:45 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 3/4] services: openssh: Fix 'PrintLastLog' default behaviour Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-02 21:03 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] services: openssh: Enable PAM Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] services: openssh: Remove deprecated options Clément Lassieur
2017-03-03 10:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-09 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-02 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] services: openssh: Fix 'PrintLastLog' default behaviour Clément Lassieur
2017-03-03 10:19 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-09 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-03 10:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] services: openssh: Enable PAM Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-09 22:37 ` Leo Famulari
2017-03-10 18:25 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-02-20 23:53 ` [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option Clément Lassieur
2017-03-02 7:44 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-02 21:00 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-05 14:50 ` ng0
2017-03-07 20:49 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2017-03-07 21:01 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-16 10:03 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-16 20:45 ` ng0
2017-03-16 20:50 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-03-17 5:36 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 11:08 ` ng0 [this message]
2017-03-17 10:28 ` grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.) John Darrington
2017-03-17 10:42 ` ng0
2017-03-17 10:47 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 10:57 ` grammar usage Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 11:12 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 11:28 ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 13:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-17 14:13 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 16:43 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2017-03-18 13:52 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 11:31 ` ng0
2017-03-17 16:13 ` grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.) Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2017-03-17 17:50 ` John Darrington
2017-03-17 16:21 ` [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option Leo Famulari
2017-03-17 17:58 ` John Darrington
2017-03-18 11:09 ` ng0
2017-03-18 11:45 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2017-03-18 11:52 ` ng0
2017-03-18 12:10 ` John Darrington
2017-03-18 12:17 ` Catonano
2017-03-18 12:28 ` Catonano
2017-03-18 13:43 ` Being excellent to one another Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 15:47 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-19 16:33 ` John Darrington
2017-03-19 21:21 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-19 22:40 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-03-20 2:57 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-20 6:36 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 8:57 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-20 9:54 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 10:17 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-20 10:44 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 11:08 ` Catonano
2017-03-20 11:21 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-20 11:53 ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-20 12:12 ` ng0
2017-03-20 12:12 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 12:10 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 14:27 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 14:40 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 23:54 ` dian_cecht
2017-03-21 8:50 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-20 11:02 ` Catonano
2017-03-20 15:09 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-03-20 15:17 ` John Darrington
2017-03-20 15:49 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-20 17:12 ` John Darrington
2017-03-21 9:14 ` Alex Sassmannshausen
2017-03-21 10:02 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2017-03-21 12:07 ` John Darrington
2017-03-21 12:17 ` ng0
2017-03-21 12:26 ` John Darrington
2017-03-21 12:36 ` ng0
2017-03-21 12:38 ` ng0
2017-03-21 14:50 ` [EOT] " Ricardo Wurmus
2017-03-19 16:50 ` [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option Clément Lassieur
2017-03-21 0:17 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 15:45 ` [PATCH 2/2] services: openssh: Remove deprecated 'RSAAuthentication' option Ricardo Wurmus
2017-02-18 18:07 ` Clément Lassieur
2017-02-18 11:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] Openssh service patches Clément Lassieur
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