I appreciate the trivia, I was not aware of that possibility. I
certainly envy the students of the language.
But I'll presume you've since used English quite enough to be considered
fluent in it, unlike most other Koha contributors. And if Kate is ready
to learn genderless pronouns, as I'm sure are most of the well rounded
and educated individuals that make up this community, _it is not
intuitive nor easy, in fact it is very very confusing_ to the discrete
contributor. An unwarranted confusion, in my opinion.
Again, to be clear, we're not talking about the face of Koha we're
presenting to the world, the Product. We're talking about coding
guidelines for _code comments_ added genuinely by naive contributors.
Lower the barrier to entry, do not raise them!
Anyway... have a good day/night/evening/dusk/dawn/lunch
Damn it! It's hard to be inclusive!
Have a good they
Philippe Blouin,
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On 04/19/2017 04:54 PM, Chris Cormack wrote:
On 20 April 2017 at 07:48, Philippe Blouin <philippe.blo...@inlibro.com> wrote:
That's no strawman, that's a genuine questionning.
You talk inclusivity, I'm all for it, but can we walk the talk now? 'They'
is a bigger barrier to entry than 'he' for non-English readers/coders. But
hey, what do I know, what is my perspective here? The stated initiative is
good: the majority of users are female, the code is male-centric, can we be
progressive, inclusive... But 'they' sucks. As I said, why not use "she" ?
Interestingly enough, my first language Māori has no gendered pronouns at all.
All of them are non gendered. So they is much easier to understand for me.
Anei tōnā ngeru
Here is their cat.
There's your useless trivia for the day. Not all non english speakers
have gendered pronouns either :)
Chris
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