On 06/04/2010 10:00 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:26:49AM CEST:
I'm not the automake maintainer.
But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about you,
the user, or
Hi,
But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about you,
the user, or you, the developer.
Lovely! I know plenty of people who will be very happy for that and I really
do believe it makes a difference for reaching a
Hi again
Thanks for answers.
We could have an elaborate discussion about linguistics, or we could change
the text on the site so anyone feels at home. For the comfort of
hermaphrodites I think the developer's is a good suggestion. Redundancy is
not as bad as people feeling sad for not belonging,
At Friday 04 June 2010, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote:
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly
languages where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather
than masculine, and this is one of those cases. Politically
If one wishes to use a gender neutral word, one could always go for
person/per/pers/perself as used by Marge Piercy. That won't insult
the sensibilities hermaphrodite...
I've always found the claim that using his vs. hers in text influences
anyone in free software projects, specially women,
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:26:49AM CEST:
I'm not the automake maintainer.
But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about you,
the user, or you, the developer.
By the way, if one person states
On Friday, June 04, 2010 03:24:34 Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
On 4 Jun 2010, at 13:47, Christina Gratorp wrote:
For the comfort of
hermaphrodites I think the developer's is a good suggestion. Redundancy
is not as bad as people feeling sad for not belonging, right? Gary, you
seem to be a girl
Hi!
I found a bug in the intro pages for automake:
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence
The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile
must be wrong since I'm a woman and a user and have packages I want to build
and those packages
On 06/03/2010 08:01 AM, Christina Gratorp wrote:
Hi!
Hello,
You mailed the autoconf list, but complained about the automake manual.
You may want to resend this to a more appropriate list if you want
anything to change, since this sentence does not appear in the autoconf
manual.
I found a
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages
where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather than masculine,
and this is one of those cases. Politically correct pundits are trying
to eradicate that usage, but personally,
On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages
where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather than masculine,
and this is one of those cases. Politically correct pundits are
Hi Chris,
On 3 Jun 2010, at 21:01, Christina Gratorp wrote:
I found a bug in the intro pages for automake:
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence
The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile
must be wrong since I'm a woman and a
On Thursday, June 03, 2010 22:26:49 Eric Blake wrote:
On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages
where the pronoun his can have a neuter sense rather than masculine,
and this is
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