Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Wouter Verhelst writes: > A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object. > I don't think anyone will misinterpret your proposed new wording into > thinking the TC has a physical chair that someone sits on, but the > s/Chairmain/Chair/ you apply does to me seem to

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Daniel Kahn Gillmor writes ("Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution"): > I'm a native english speaker. English has far worse ambiguities than > this, and it is easily recognizable for what it is. No one will think > that Debian is proposing that we

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-21 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Thu 2016-07-21 11:15:57 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object. > > I don't think anyone will misinterpret your proposed new wording into > thinking the TC has a physical chair that someone sits on, but the > s/Chairmain/Chair/ you apply does to me

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-21 Thread Anibal Monsalve Salazar
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an object. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chair_%28disambiguation%29 "Chair or Chairman, the highest officer of an organized group"

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-21 Thread Dimitri John Ledkov
Hello, On 21 July 2016 at 10:15, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Hi Marga, > > I second this amendment, although it introduces a minor awkwardness: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> - The Technical Committee and/or its Chairman; >> + The

Re: GR Proposal: replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution

2016-07-21 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi Marga, I second this amendment, although it introduces a minor awkwardness: On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 03:27:56PM +0200, Margarita Manterola wrote: > - The Technical Committee and/or its Chairman; > + The Technical Committee and/or its Chair; A "Chairman" is a person. A "Chair" may be an