Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-03 Thread Joel Baker
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 01:02:47AM +1000, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:21:45PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > > > It's not much of a justification -- it basically amounts to "my way is > > > > right" followed by a personal insult to anyone who disagrees. > > > > > > Hmm. I f

Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-03 Thread Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
On Tuesday 03 August 2004 17.02, Paul Hampson wrote: > Maybe it'd be easiest for all Debian documentation to be written in > a language with either grammatical or no gender, rather than dealing > with English's cobbled-together natural gender system. ^_^ New HTTP header: X-Accept-Gender: (male |

Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 11:35:39AM +1000, Paul Hampson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:57:13PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > I'd propose using "(s)he" and "his/her", or else using "they" and > > "their", depending on where your aesthetic tastes lie. > > > (Simila

Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-03 Thread Paul Hampson
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 03:21:45PM +1000, Ben Burton wrote: > > > > It's not much of a justification -- it basically amounts to "my way is > > > right" followed by a personal insult to anyone who disagrees. > > > > Hmm. I feel you may not have read the first two paragraphs of that, and > > have o

Re: Bits from the WNPP: RFH tag

2004-08-03 Thread Ben Burton
> > It's not much of a justification -- it basically amounts to "my way is > > right" followed by a personal insult to anyone who disagrees. > > Hmm. I feel you may not have read the first two paragraphs of that, and > have only responded to the last. The first paragraph begins by asserting the