Hannah Schroeter wrote:
Yee will find it interesting if yee is a uman.
No need to invent yet another kind of wheel, in my eyes.
S/he will find it interesting if s/he is a wo/man.
This contains the obnoxious GNU/Linux slash.
Yee and uman is superior.
(GNU/Linux should really be called: BSD/GNU/Linux.
Gnu has bsd code inside of it, openssh, and other BSD patches)
See for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun
Seems Middle English even already had a completely neutral singular 3rd
person pronoun but that got lost again. From the neologistic
neutral/epicene singular 3rd person pronouns, the ones I see most are
singular use "they", sie/hir, zie/zir, ze/hir (somewhat close to
sie/hir), or the slashed variant (s/he, etc.).
Obnoxious gnu/linux slashes
More complications:
S/He or S/he at the beginning of a sentence?
The GNU/Linux Gnu/Linux GNU/linux problem plagues us..
For the neutral noun,
nothing wrong with "human"
Real humans don't attack straw humans.
It can work..
The only argument I can come up with..
The word human kind of implies we are distinguishing a species.. i.e.
humans vs cats vs dogs.
or "person", no need
to invent another word for that.
Real persons don't attack straw persons.
It can work. It is 'ess' sounding.. Not as dramatic as 'men'.
But then, I've been bugged with non-linguistic sexist assumptions even
more than by the linguistic ones. Yes, here. Like "you can't really be
a woman if you're a that good {programmer,OS person,choosewhatyoulike}".
If that's not sexist, what is?
Kind regards,
Real men don't send kind regards to anyone.
Hannah.
How do I know Hannah is not a man's name?
You throw around your name like that at the bottom of your email as if
it means something!
Regards,
L505
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Disclaimer:
No one should ever hold a door open for a girl.
That is a form of sexism.
The main purpose of my articles are to gain brownie points with females,
as by writing my umen/yee article I now can be considered someone who is
equal and non sexist. Anyone who writes such pieces is obviously just
trying to cover up their true self through overcompensation.
