On Thursday, November 20, 2014 5:06:43 AM UTC+1, Nathann Cohen wrote: > > The truth is that I have no idea how to say gender-neutral sentences > in english without making my sentences non-deterministic, i.e. "a > bunch of 20 [guys|girls] .* each expressing [his|her] own voice". And > I hate non-determinism. >
Don't worry, native English speakers have no idea, either. I read the sage-sexist remark as a joke, but after Mike's followup, maybe not. In my experience, >95% of the English-speakers address each other informally as "guys", including females addressing mixed groups. (I personally hate the term, but that's beside the point.) About the larger question: suppose (as William points out) someone(s) ignore(s) a request to move something(s) to sage-flame. An alternate approach to banning might be a policy of, "si salvi chi può": simply start a new thread. In my limited experience, those engaged in verbal combat stick it out in the particular thread where lies the matter they can't let lie. john perry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
