On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 12:21:31PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 06:36:20AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:45:27PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>
> ps Cl??ment: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the
gender and/or
> prefered pronoun of a person :)
>
>
> ... according to some. - but most linguists, and many orators (the
president of
> the Free Software Foundation being one of them) consider this to be a
misuse of
> the English language and refuse to (mis)use these words for such a
purpose.
As a native USA English speaker, I think this usage is fine, and widely
accepted by speakers, at least in this country. There are some cases
where it sounds a little clunky, but we don't have other words for this
use case that enjoy wider common usage.I am glad that at least one person can express a point of view and be polite about it at the same time. If you think it is fine, then it is your right to use it. I find it confusing and clunky in most cases, and I refuse to use it. I also reserve the right, when others advocate its use, to present my own point of view. If anyone chooses to interpret that as rude, sexist, intolerant or whatever - then that is their problem and not mine. They will have to get over it. J' -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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