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bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
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Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names |
Date: |
Sun, 23 Sep 2018 08:01:24 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
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>
> > If you'll pardon another nit, I suggest using "they" instead of "s?he"
> > which has the advantage of being a pronounceable English word.
>
> Using "they" for a singular antecedent is confusing, and I always find
> it jarring. I won't make a rule against, but I make a point of never
> using that construction. "S?he" avoids the confusion because it is
> clearly singular.
>
> I use a different set of gender-neutral singular pronouns, which I
> think fit better into English. See
> https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html.
I find "s?he" jarring due to its non-wordness and "per" confusing
because it's already a word which means something else (I end up having
to read the sentence from the beginning again to parse it right). I
expect it's mostly a matter of practice though.
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, (continued)
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Noam Postavsky, 2018/09/18
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Tino Calancha, 2018/09/19
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/19
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Tino Calancha, 2018/09/21
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/22
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Noam Postavsky, 2018/09/22
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/22
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names,
Noam Postavsky <=
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Tino Calancha, 2018/09/24
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/24
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Tino Calancha, 2018/09/24
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/24
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Robert Pluim, 2018/09/25
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/25
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Richard Stallman, 2018/09/25
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Tino Calancha, 2018/09/29
- bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names, Tino Calancha, 2018/09/24