Janet M. Swisher wrote: > >Especially the changes to the Editing Primer. The only comment is: > >in the section on Gender Neutral, last example about feminizing nouns, > >maybe the word 'gender' should be used instead of 'sex'. > > That's debateable. The old editorial saw is "Words have gender. People > have sex." In these politically-correct times, some people make the > distinction that, for people, "sex" is biological, "gender" is social, > and they don't always match. Other people just don't like the word "sex" > because of its other meanings. (I hope this message makes it through > everybody's spam filters! :-) ) I think, in that example, "sexes" makes > it clear that the phrase refers to people, not words.
I guess I won't touch the development doc after all... :-) Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org |
