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bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:24:22 +0300 |
> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha@gmail.com>, 32731@debbugs.gnu.org,
> npostavs@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:14:11 +0200
>
> > I usually just rewrite the text to be in plural, like "the users"
> > instead of "the user". Then "they" is correct English.
>
> Point of order: singular they has been correct English for the last
> 700 years. Some people donʼt like it, but that doesnʼt make it wrong.
"Some people" seem to include Richard, who said a few messages ago:
> 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.
Thus my preference to rewrite in plural.
- 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, 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, 2018/09/23
- 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 <=
- 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