Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation
| От | Geoff Winkless |
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| Тема | Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation |
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| Msg-id | CAEzk6fcakR-P7DwXRoXdcp9bJv1P2dbt62eWAj84Q6AE3ueU0w@mail.gmail.com обсуждение исходный текст |
| Ответ на | Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>) |
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Oh, good! We're actually going to have this argument? Even though I said I don't care what you do?
On 09/22/2015 09:25 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:If someone sends me a document that uses "their" in a singular usage, I will think that person is lazy. That will continue to be the case, whether people tell me that it's accepted usage or not.
You can think that if you like,
Thanks! That's a great relief to me, as I'm sure you can imagine.
but it's not even remotely true.
You just stated that the reason you don't want to use the plural form I suggested is because it's too hard/time-consuming. That does suggest you accept that it's a valid solution but you're too lazy to use it.
It's a deliberate choice to use a new, perfectly reasonable and now widely accepted style of which you disapprove, but it's not lazy.
That's your opinion; my opinion remains otherwise. It's not "perfectly reasonable" to abuse the plural because some 1960s feminazis either misunderstood or didn't like the fact that (because of history) in English the gender-neutral singular happens to also be the male singular.
Happily for me, I can continue to write documents in a grammatically correct way, and no-one will read them and think I'm a grammar-nazi (or obstinate, or old-fashioned or whatever) because unless they're specifically looking for it no-one will notice that I'm avoiding the contentious usage altogether. On the other hand, there _will_ be a (perhaps significant) proportion of people who read your documents and think that you're incapable of writing a grammatically correct sentence.
Geoff
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