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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: "Emilio Herrera" <ehespinosa57@gmail.com>,
	57046@debbugs.gnu.org,
	"Reynaldo Cordero" <reynaldo.cordero@gmail.com>,
	"Miguel Ángel Arruga Vivas" <rosen644835@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#57046: Spanish documentation uses exclusive language
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:45:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pmh9cte6.fsf@pelzflorian.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edxp7cnq.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:46:17 +0200")

Hi Ludo.

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>   • Using gender-neutral words—e.g., “personas” or “quién” rather than
>     “usuarios”.
>
>   • Talking to the user: “puedes hacer …” rather than “usuarios pueden
>     hacer …”.

Agree, but when these don’t work,


>   • Using the -e suffix, which has the advantage of being concise and
>     readable, but potentially off-putting (at least today).
>
>   • Using repetitions, “usuarias y usuarios”.

It depends, but I think inclusiveness in technical manual sections is
not important enough to justify such trade-offs (for the German
translation that is).  Hrmm.  Of course I would comply if need be, but I
do disagree.  (I have very little experience with Spanish though.)

Regards,
Florian




  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-09 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-07 15:52 bug#57046: Spanish documentation uses exclusive language lfvega--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-08 10:39 ` Jean Pierre De Jesus DIAZ via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-08 14:18   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-08-09 13:46     ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-09 15:45       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) [this message]
2022-08-09 17:15         ` Csepp
2022-08-09 20:02           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-08-10 18:54             ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-11 14:33               ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-08-10 13:38         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-08-12 13:24           ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-08-10  1:23       ` bokr
2022-08-10 17:14         ` Csepp
2022-08-08 11:01 ` bug#57046: (No Subject) Jean Pierre De Jesus DIAZ via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-08 15:29   ` bug#57046: Spanish documentation uses exclusive language lfvega--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-11 17:08 ` Jean Pierre De Jesus DIAZ via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-13  7:48   ` Csepp
2022-08-13  8:19     ` Jean Pierre De Jesus DIAZ via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-08-13 10:27     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-10-08 14:09 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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