I know english language experts say I am wrong but I too tend to use "they" and
"their" to be gender neutral.
Kee
On Mar 31, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
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> On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
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>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay
>> wrote:
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>>> I
On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay
> wrote:
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>> I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
>> correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
>>
>
> In English, unlike the word "her," the word "hi
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
> correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
>
In English, unlike the word "her," the word "his" does not imply gender on
its own when used for a unknown perso
On 3/31/13 11:58 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
...
Actually, it is grammatically correct, at least accord
On 03/31/2013 07:58 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."
Or
On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."
Or don't use a pronoun at all:
"When the user pres
On 03/30/2013 10:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
just say "LGBT community". Easier.
Thanks, but I still need to know the possessive pronoun . . . 'shis' ?
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote:
Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way
of doing th
On 3/30/13 3:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
just say "LGBT community". Easier.
I just use "their" and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically
correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody.
"When the user presses a key on their keyboard..."
Or don't use a pronoun at all:
"When
just say "LGBT community". Easier.
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote:
> Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different way
> of doing things
> and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user
> pressed a key on her/his
>
> (and I really s
Thanks chaps, but after some thought I went for a completely different
way of doing things
and had the stack save a backup RTF document every time the end-user
pressed a key on her/his
(and I really should apologise that I am not entirely sure how to signal
that I should like to include the tr
One extra thought. Maybe it would be good for openField to set a custom
property of the field to true and have a closefield/exitfield handler to
set it to false Then have SaveMeCheeses check the custom property
before sending the message to itself. Might prevent some unnecessary saves.
Pete
lcSQL
OOPS!
*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
-- gather all your text into a variable
put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
sen
*In your openStack script:*
put "10" into tSaveInterval -- assuming minutes
send saveMeCheeses to this stack in (tSaveInterval*60) secs
*In your stack script:*
on saveMeCheeses
-- gather all your text into a variable
put tMyText into URL (file:C:/someplace/really/safe/MyFile.txt")
send saveM
Merry LibreOffice allows one to set it so that it autosaves a document
at a set time interval in case your computer goes wonky, or LibreOffice
crashes.
And a jolly good idea that is too (even if they pinched it from Microsoft).
Now I would like to have the same sort of feature in my "next thang"
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