On 06/04/2010 10:00 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello,
>
> * Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:26:49AM CEST:
>> I'm not the automake maintainer.
>
> But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
> gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about "you",
> th
Hi,
But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
> gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about "you",
> the user, or "you", the developer.
>
Lovely! I know plenty of people who will be very happy for that and I really
do believe it makes a difference for reachin
On Friday, June 04, 2010 03:24:34 Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2010, at 13:47, Christina Gratorp wrote:
> > For the comfort of
> > hermaphrodites I think "the developer's" is a good suggestion. Redundancy
> > is not as bad as people feeling sad for not belonging, right? Gary, you
> > seem to b
Hello,
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:26:49AM CEST:
> I'm not the automake maintainer.
But I am. And I will rewrite its manual to just use the simplest
gender-neutral alternative, namely, speaking to and about "you",
the user, or "you", the developer.
By the way, if one person st
If one wishes to use a gender neutral word, one could always go for
person/per/pers/perself as used by Marge Piercy. That won't insult
the sensibilities hermaphrodite...
I've always found the claim that using his vs. hers in text influences
anyone in free software projects, specially women, highl
At Friday 04 June 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
> > Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly
> > languages where the pronoun "his" can have a neuter sense rather
> > than masculine, and this is one of those cases. Politically
> > correct pundits are trying
Hi Chris,
Please don't top-post on technical lists.
On 4 Jun 2010, at 13:47, Christina Gratorp wrote:
> 2010/6/4 Mike Frysinger
>> On Thursday, June 03, 2010 22:26:49 Eric Blake wrote:
>>> On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
Eric Blake writes:
> Thanks for the report. However,
Hi again
Thanks for answers.
We could have an elaborate discussion about linguistics, or we could change
the text on the site so anyone feels at home. For the comfort of
hermaphrodites I think "the developer's" is a good suggestion. Redundancy is
not as bad as people feeling sad for not belonging
On Thursday, June 03, 2010 22:26:49 Eric Blake wrote:
> On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Eric Blake writes:
> >> Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages
> >> where the pronoun "his" can have a neuter sense rather than masculine,
> >> and this is one
Hi Chris,
On 3 Jun 2010, at 21:01, Christina Gratorp wrote:
> I found a bug in the intro pages for automake:
> http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Introduction. The sentence
> "The developer expresses the recipe to build *his* package in a Makefile"
> must be wrong since I'm a woman a
On 06/03/2010 06:28 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Eric Blake writes:
>
>> Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages
>> where the pronoun "his" can have a neuter sense rather than masculine,
>> and this is one of those cases. Politically correct pundits are trying
>> to
Eric Blake writes:
> Thanks for the report. However, English is one of those silly languages
> where the pronoun "his" can have a neuter sense rather than masculine,
> and this is one of those cases. Politically correct pundits are trying
> to eradicate that usage, but personally, I'm still of
On 06/03/2010 08:01 AM, Christina Gratorp wrote:
> Hi!
Hello,
You mailed the autoconf list, but complained about the automake manual.
You may want to resend this to a more appropriate list if you want
anything to change, since this sentence does not appear in the autoconf
manual.
>
> I found a
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