On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:11:36AM +, MJR wrote:
> I'm tired of this crusade against the English from our resident
> sexists, grounded only in the Sapir-Whorf *hypothesis*.
>
> If you would like some example genders switched to make a bit
> more of a mix, or avoided entirely, then fine, but p
MJR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm tired of this crusade against the English from our resident
> sexists, grounded only in the Sapir-Whorf *hypothesis*.
Charitably assuming you meant "English" rather than "the English", I
think that's going way too far. Use of singular they may or may not be a
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> Please note that being an AM is a very important and responsible job.
> Please treat your applicants in a nice and friendly manner. If you have
> any questions about how to proceed with an applicant, please don't
> hesitate to cont
Helen Faulkner wrote:
> Well, actually that is incorrect. They as a singular, gender neutral
> pronoun has been used in English for centuries (surely, if Shakespeare
> used it, its good enough for Debian). See, for example
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
I'm tired of this crusade ag
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:43:28PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> > Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > >Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt and Brian Nelson have recently joined the Front
> > >Desk. I'm currently giving them some training and I have als
su, 2005-01-30 kello 14:43 -0500, Glenn Maynard kirjoitti:
> Ugh. English has no gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, which
> means that the use of "he" and "his" for an unspecific third party assumes
> nothing about his gender. Your objections to [1] and [2] are patently
> false. (Your
Glenn Maynard wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote:
Ugh. English has no gender-neutral third person singular pronoun, which
means that the use of "he" and "his" for an unspecific third party assumes
nothing about his gender.
Well, actually that is incorrect. Th
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> Chinese and Japanese text at once. If you're a Japanese user, converting
Yes.
> with a Chinese font, this isn't a problem. (A multilingual user is
> no better off with a different locale, though--if you can store files
> in different encodings, you ha
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> >Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt and Brian Nelson have recently joined the Front
> >Desk. I'm currently giving them some training and I have also written
> >documentation on the activities of the Front Desk. The do
Martin Michlmayr wrote:
Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt and Brian Nelson have recently joined the Front
Desk. I'm currently giving them some training and I have also written
documentation on the activities of the Front Desk. The documentation
is available from http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/nm/trunk/doc/ It'
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 11:23:29AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Please could you explain why?
>
> Do your homework about Unicode and locales. Hints for the googling:
> Unicode CJK unification problems.
My recollection is that this is only a problem for displaying eg. both
Chines
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>I think the locales package is the place to start this. For etch, I
> >>would like the UTF-8 locales to be the default for all languages (with
> > This would be stupid, pointless and
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:16:57PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> While there are none such yet, what files and how (what commands?
> where to write them?) should I back up (automatically, over-write) on
> startup and shutdown, so that all I would have to do would be to
> re-install and j
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:22:39PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:16:57PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> > There should be a package "joe-debian-user.1.0.deb" (a. k. a.
> > "debai.1.0.deb")- with the help of which a non-techie user would be
> > able to fix any problem
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