Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”

Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by hashmush on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:40AM (#35838716)

Sounds like you have an ax to grind. The whole comment comes of as very dismissive of the feminist movement (which might be justified, I know nothing about feminism in France).

> [..] nor would I accept them if I got them (political militantism doesn’t make a good employee, especially if they pretend including women is a new thing).

I don't know what to make of this, you'd reject candidates because they used dots instead of parenthesis, citing political militantism?

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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by denton-scratch on Saturday May 06, 2023 @11:56AM (#35842590)

> because they used dots

Written language should be pronounceable - it's a written rendition of a spoken language. Even math formulae are pronounceable. How are you supposed to pronounce “français.e.s”?

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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by hashmush on Saturday May 06, 2023 @02:29PM (#35844014)

Not really the main point of my comment, but okay.

Firstly, mapping symbols to sound is arbitrary and based on convention.

I don't speak French, but I wouldn't say français.e.s is that much worse than français(e)s, pronunciation-wise. But I do agree that -.e.s is a bit odd. Kinda like w/ and w/o in English. I mean, seriously, why isn't it w. and w.o. like any other abbreviation.

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Re:Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of” by denton-scratch on Saturday May 06, 2023 @04:17PM (#35845015)

I think it's more like "s/he". It's a typographical notation with no common understanding of how it's supposed to be pronounced.

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