Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines

Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by mbrumlow on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @10:47AM (#18292857)

To play devil's advocate why is it so upsetting that people don't want to use they?

(seriously just playing devil's advocate here)

It's not a big deal until somebody makes a big deal about it, on either side of the issue. What we have is one group making a HUGE deal about pronouns, and another equally making a HUGE deal about not using pronouns. At the same time each side is saying each other is horrible.

It's not a big deal until you make a big deal about it...

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by pseudalopex on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @01:33PM (#18294551)

When has gender not been a big deal in human society?

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by mbrumlow on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @06:28PM (#18297017)

We are not talking about gender. We are talking about pronouns.

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by pseudalopex on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:16PM (#18297851)

We're specifically talking about English third-person singular pronouns. Why do you think that is?

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Re:Richard Stallman Has Announced the GNU Kind Communication... by mbrumlow on Thursday October 25, 2018 @08:57AM (#18300503)

A word...

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