On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 12:52:08PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> I know a number of French female academics, who would just laugh at the
> latter claim.
> To start with, they, married, but retained their maiden surnames, say, X,
> cannot even manage to get
> them addressed by official
I totally agree with Léa: Awesome patch, but...
Please stop this troll!
As children of Gaia for me, there's no matter if Greg is a woman or Léa a
men... Are bash male or female!?
This forum is technical, not political!
I've already seen many human groups splited because of stupid
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 01:57:58PM +0200, felix wrote:
> I totally agree with L??a: Awesome patch, but...
>
> Please stop this troll!
>
> As children of Gaia for me, there's no matter if Greg is a woman or L??a a
> men... Are bash male or female!?
>
> This forum is technical, not political!
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:12:07PM +0200, Léa Gris wrote:
> This is what is happening here. Now they just ask for mundane changes and
> will probably accept the patch. They will come again and ask for inclusive
> grammar, then come again and ask for removal of anything that is even
> remotely
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 08:37:53PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> Where have you been taught to address a CS lecturer at Oxford University,
> a PhD, who, age-wise, could have been your father, I suppose, with f-word?
> In which well-respected madrasah did it happen, so that we know?
Please lads:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 06:12:07PM +0200, L??a Gris wrote:
> Le 07/06/2021 ?? 14:25, Dima Pasechnik ??crivait???:
>
> > > This forum is technical, not political!
> >
> > Technical decisions might easily have political consequences, you cannot
> > just separate these ones.
>
> You are turning
7 Haziran 2021 Pazartesi tarihinde Dima Pasechnik yazdı:
>
> Where have you been taught to address a CS lecturer at Oxford University,
> a PhD, who, age-wise, could have been your father, I suppose, with f-word?
>
There's more where that came from, but I'd rather keep them off this list.
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2021 at 08:58:08PM +0300, O??uz wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 1:52 PM Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:59:17PM +0200, L??a Gris wrote:
> > > Le 06/06/2021 ?? 16:34, O??uz ??crivait???:
> > >
> > > > Then there is no need to change anything.
> > yes, there
Le 07/06/2021 à 14:25, Dima Pasechnik écrivait :
This forum is technical, not political!
Technical decisions might easily have political consequences, you cannot just
separate these ones.
You are turning it backward.
This proposal is 100% political and 0% technical.
The current patches
In the context of the recent discussion regarding the use of pronouns in
the Bash documentation, here is an alternate patch which rewrites the
relevant sentences to avoid altogether the use of pronouns to refer to
an unspecified person.
(Someone may have once said, "If all your answers are bad
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 10:28 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Out of these 5 choices, the one that seems to suck the *least*, according
> to observed usage patterns in current written and spoken English, is
> "they".
I agree with Greg, *they* has become the dominant gender neutral pronoun in
English. I
On 2021/06/06 07:19, Alain D D Williams wrote:
The important thing is that there is no intention to oppress/denigrate/...
But it does _suggest_ that the default user is a male.
or, speaking about historical use, that the default user was
male. The problem comes when someone reads gendered
On 2021/06/06 04:48, Léa Gris wrote:
Le 06/06/2021 à 11:33, Ilkka Virta écrivait :
In fact, that generic 'they' is so common and accepted, that you just
used
it yourself
in the part I quoted above.
Either you're acting in bad faith, or you're so confused by your
gender-neutral delusion that
On 6/7/21 3:06 PM, Oğuz wrote:
7 Haziran 2021 Pazartesi tarihinde Dima Pasechnik yazdı:
Where have you been taught to address a CS lecturer at Oxford University,
a PhD, who, age-wise, could have been your father, I suppose, with f-word?
There's more where that came from, but I'd rather
On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:59:17PM +0200, L??a Gris wrote:
> Le 06/06/2021 ?? 16:34, O??uz ??crivait???:
>
> > Then there is no need to change anything.
yes, there is a pressing need.
>
> Exactly.
> As a woman, I take no offense when a documentation illustrate a fictive male
> character. (and
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