On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:58:17PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> By the way. Could we please use "gender" in db.debian.org?
As long as we're on the topic of language and usage, I should point
out that gender is properly a property of words. People don't have
gender - people have sex (
Nick wrote:
> Trying to think of a more obvious example... how would you rephrase
> "Imagine that you are in a dark room when you hear someone enter.
> Having entered, they close the door behind them." without butchering
> it completely?
In that phrase, it's not clear how many people have entered.
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 02:10:38PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:06:51PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote:
> > -public_html on gluck and refered to by
> > +~/public_html on gluck and refered to by
>
> s/refered/referred/
>
> http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=referred
>
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Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
Anthony Towns asks,
Is there any reason why grammar, porn and spam debates
are attracting so much traffic?
With reference to the three specific topics
listed---grammar, porn and spam---and at the risk of
inadvertently choosing inapt words, one might illustrate
the two confl
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:20:31PM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > By the same token, it should also have a second person plural,
> > which it lacks [...] much like a lot of the country uses
> > "y'all", or "you all" for those who don't want to sound
> > Southern, for a second p
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:41:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:04:36 -0700, Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > *) English common usage (rather than formal usage) is rapidly and
> > widely adopting "singular they" (much like a lot of the country uses
> > "y'all
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, MJ Ray wrote:
>
> *The* country? I've not noticed southern England using "y'all",
> but I'm not from there. ;-)
>
That would be youse in one part of Essex at least.
Personally I would resent any attempts to force gender-neutral[sic]
language, the whole idea is quite dumb, bu
This one time, at band camp, Jaldhar H. Vyas said:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, MJ Ray wrote:
> >
> > *The* country? I've not noticed southern England using "y'all",
> > but I'm not from there. ;-)
> >
>
> That would be youse in one part of Essex at least.
Funny, it's exactly the same in Philadelphia.
This one time, at band camp, MJ Ray said:
> Nick wrote:
> > Trying to think of a more obvious example... how would you rephrase
> > "Imagine that you are in a dark room when you hear someone enter.
> > Having entered, they close the door behind them." without butchering
> > it completely?
>
> In t
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:41:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:04:36 -0700, Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > *) English common usage (rather than formal usage) is rapidly and
> > widely adopting "singular they" (much like a lot of the country uses
> > "y'all
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On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 20:12 +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:41:51PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:04:36 -0700, Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
> > > *) English common usage (rather than formal usage) is rapidly and
> > > widely ado
[GAR! Why am I responding to this thread?]
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:58:17PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > By the way. Could we please use "gender" in db.debian.org?
>
> As long as we're on the topic of language and usage, I should point
>
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:41:33PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:24:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> > I've found when making my licence notes that there are licences
> > with grey areas, licences which could be used for either free
> > or non-free software without too much ef
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 07:18:07AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > I know that any license can be "interpreted" in a non-free way (even
> > the MIT license), but that's usually the rare exception. Other than
> > licenses with "options" (which essentially makes them multiple licenses),
> > and ot
Here's the interesting thing: are the summaries trying to be
everything to everyone and that's why they don't work?
Francesco Poli wrote:
> When I find out some useful or interesting piece of software (i.e.
> program or documentation or music or ...), I try to determine its
> (DFSG-)freeness. [...
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 02:24:42AM +, MJ Ray wrote:
> I've found when making my licence notes that there are licences
> with grey areas, licences which could be used for either free
> or non-free software without too much effort.
I know that any license can be "interpreted" in a non-free way (
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