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Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by dingaling on Thursday August 27, 2015 @04:22PM (#10131844)
Did he / she / they ever fix the IMAP compatibility issues that arose in the first version?

The app was doing some funky stuff with IMAP Namespaces and wouldn't work with Fastmail's strict implementation, for example. There was a bit of a he-said she-said exchange on Twitter but I never saw a resolution.

For example;

https://mobile.twitter.com/mailpilotapp/status/4067773174577...

Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by tptacek on Thursday August 27, 2015 @05:03PM (#10132070)
Total tangent, but in the future, you can just use "they" to mean "he/she/they". The singular, gender-neutral "they" is, contrary to the opinions of a rogue group of turn- of- the- last- century prescriptive grammarians, perfectly standard written English.
Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by jesserosenthal on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:10PM (#10136234)
English teacher cosign. Though I do usually advise students to be aware of their audience, and avoid the singular "they" if it will distract pedantic readers. (Essentially, and unfortunately, you have to advance to the point in life where people are no longer searching for reasons to use a red pen.)
Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by dctoedt on Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:41PM (#10133045)
Stop! Abomination! Monstrosity! <g>
Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by tptacek on Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:52PM (#10133076)
I tells you whats: you convince Jane Austen to revise and correct Pride and Prejudice, removing the singular "they", and I'll concede the point.
Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by dctoedt on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:12PM (#10133149)
I'll make you a deal, Thomas: If you'll lobby equally vigorously for Jane's use of comma splices [1] [2] as acceptable practice, I'll reconsider the singular "they."

[1] E.g., the second comma in "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." (Chapter 1, first sentence.) Or the third [EDIT: fourth] comma in "Not all that Mrs. Bennet, however, with the assistance of her five daughters, could ask on the subject, was sufficient to draw from her husband any satisfactory description of Mr. Bingley." (Chapter 3, first sentence.) [3]

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_splice

[3] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1342/1342-h/1342-h.htm#link2...

Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by tedunangst on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:13PM (#10133555)
Those aren't comma splices because there aren't two independent clauses.
Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by dctoedt on Friday August 28, 2015 @10:20AM (#10135540)
True -- is there a better term for the comma usage illustrated in the two Jane Austen quotes?
Re:Mail Pilot 2 for Mac by tedunangst on Friday August 28, 2015 @12:24PM (#10136330)
Superfluous, stylistic commas. Or superfluous stylistic commas if you prefer. Commas are inserted seemingly at random by some authors to control the pacing of a sentence. It's not necessarily wrong. btw, "confessions of a comma queen" in the new yorker may be an interesting read.