Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Erm, no, it might be common style, but it's not "OK". I'm totally with > Oz here, it's a kind of laziness to not use a neutral form instead when > possible - and many females don't feel addressed, even if they are not > even directly aware of it. That was one of the more major topics that > debian-women started off with, having things primarily addressing males > only doesn't help getting more females interested, lest involved. There > were long threads both on here and also on debian-l10n-german about it.
When reasonably possible, phrase things in such a way to avoid assuming gender, or switch some examples, but don't assume that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true or use it to justify the sort of language errors that certain debian-women members advocate in English. Compare: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/01/msg00360.html Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
