DIS: Re: BUS: Editorial Guidelines

On Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 18:43 Jason Cobb via agora-business < agora-busin...@agoranomic.org> wrote: > [Informal title: "Pronouns"] > > { > > The singular non-gendered pronoun is "e" in the nominative, and "em" in > the accusative. Do not use "they" as a singular pronoun. Do not use > "he/him/his"

DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

Agora has been around a very long time, and it looks like it’ll be around much longer. That means that, someday, inevitably, my worst nightmare will come true. Unless we do something to stop it. A Prophecy of Doom One day, all of a sudden, the lists fail. The archives go down with them. An

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

*slaps head* Okay, that makes my prophecy quite a bit less terrifying, now doesn't it. I don't know how I never thought of that. I've been worrying about this for literally years. It goes back pretty far, though it's hard to tell how far (it only goes to 15 pages of results by date for each list,

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Editorial Guidelines

This is a good point. Suggested reword: { The singular non-gendered pronoun is "e" in the nominative, and "em" in the accusative. Do not use "he/him/his," or "she/her/her,” or “they/them/their” as a singular pronoun when referring to a person of unknown gender. } Personally, I’m vaguely of the

Re: DIS: The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen (Attn. Distributor)

Speaking of which, last I checked, the link (at the top of the mailman archive) to download the full archive is broken. In terms of your actual thesis, it’s worth mentioning that mail-archive.org would also have to go down (although I’m not sure how far it’s history