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bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names


From: Tino Calancha
Subject: bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:27:42 +0900 (JST)
User-agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07)



On Sat, 22 Sep 2018, Richard Stallman wrote:

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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.
How about 'it'?  This way we include robots: we shouldn't
discriminate them ;-)

I saw in your site 'he/she'.  I rewrote as 'she/he',
otherwise, someone picky might complain about males been prioritized.





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