2007/12/16, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The language is not ready for it. Other languages do not have such a problem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
Best
Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and by the way, I'm not a real man.
Actually I'm not a man at all.
Not all people who are in software are men.
This an interesting point..
I came up with a solution and also wrote it down here:
On Dec 16, 2007 1:26 PM, L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and by the way, I'm not a real man.
I came up with a solution and also wrote it down here:
http://z505.com/cgi-bin/qkcont/qkcont.cgi?p=The-He-She-Woman-Man-Problem-Solved
Yee will find it interesting if yee
L writes:
Yee will find it interesting if yee is a uman.
Har, har.
Just use they.
It used to be considered poor English to use they when
speaking of a single person, but the language has evolved.
I did not find the thread title objectionable; in fact I found
it humorous that anyone thought
On Dec 16, 2007 2:02 PM, Deanna Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
L writes:
Yee will find it interesting if yee is a uman.
Har, har.
Just use they.
It used to be considered poor English to use they when
speaking of a single person, but the language has evolved.
Actually, it just came
Hi!
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 11:26:17AM -0700, L wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oh, and by the way, I'm not a real man.
Actually I'm not a man at all.
Not all people who are in software are men.
This an interesting point..
I came up with a solution and also wrote it down here:
Deanna Phillips wrote:
Yee will find it interesting if yee is a uman.
Har, har.
Just use they.
The problem with they is..
They are coming over.
: Oh, are they?
No. It's just one person!
: But you said they?
Yes.. I said they are coming over.
: You mean they is coming over?
No, they
Hannah Schroeter wrote:
Yee will find it interesting if yee is a uman.
No need to invent yet another kind of wheel, in my eyes.
S/he will find it interesting if s/he is a wo/man.
This contains the obnoxious GNU/Linux slash.
Yee and uman is superior.
(GNU/Linux should really be called:
Oh, and by the way, I'm not a real man.
Actually I'm not a man at all.
Not all people who are in software are men.
I've contributed in small ways to OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux
and Plan9.
--- Marina Brown
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Richard Stallman wrote:
An anthology contains the actual
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