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bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
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Richard Stallman |
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bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names |
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Sat, 22 Sep 2018 21:37:27 -0400 |
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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.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- 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 <=
- 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, 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