Le Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:10:51AM +0200, Per Andersson a écrit : > > To honour the recent vote on diversity [0] please make the developers > reference gender neutral. > > [0] http://www.debian.org/vote/2012/vote_002
Dear Per, I think that our technical documents should be easy to read for non-native speakers, and the modification that you propose mixes singular and plural forms in a way that, as far as I know, is not taught to students who learn the English language. I personally find it confusing and do not feel that the use of "he" implies that the maintainer must be a man. Do you have example of high-proflile institutions in England or the U.S., that recommend the use of "they" as you do ? Have a nice Sunday, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120623231304.ga5...@falafel.plessy.net
