On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 09:15:52PM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote: > > I can understand people having difficulty if writing things not in their > native language. However the English in that particular document was > perfect, as far as I can tell. So that wasn't the problem, I think. I
Yeah, this wasn't meant as a comment specific to the cited text. In fact I used that argument today when a friend of mine made a joke about me getting critizised for sexist language on Debian lists. > expect it has a lot more to do with the prevailing culture in this > community, which is something everyone here is probably already aware > of. This is some of the stuff we would like to see changing. :) > > >In reaction to > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/08/msg00072.html I got at > >least one personal mail that urged me not to do this... > > There's really nothing nice I can say about that. I hope you got more > suggesting that you change it. Without debian-women traffic it's 1:1 now ;) Not much flamewar potential so far *g* Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/
