From: Harald Arnesen <skogtun.linux@gmail.com>
To: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessarily gendered language
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:41:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52A0BADE.2030603@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131205165429.34468e1b@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk>
One Thousand Gnomes [2013-12-05 17:54]:
>>> @@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ Quota netlink interface
>>> When user exceeds a softlimit, runs out of grace time or reaches hardlimit,
>>> quota subsystem traditionally printed a message to the controlling terminal of
>>> the process which caused the excess. This method has the disadvantage that
>>> -when user is using a graphical desktop he usually cannot see the message.
>>> +when user is using a graphical desktop they usually cannot see the
>>> message.
> I would argue that "This method has the disadvantage that when user
> is using a graphical desktop he usually cannot see the message."
How about:
"This method has the disadvantage that, when using a graphical desktop,
the user usually cannot see the message" - or something similar? Gender
neutral, and not _too_ cumbersome, aside from the "user...usually".
--
Hilsen Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-05 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-03 1:18 [PATCH] Remove unnecessarily gendered language Matthew Garrett
2013-12-03 9:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-12-03 17:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2013-12-04 2:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-05 10:48 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-05 16:35 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-08 12:38 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-09 19:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-12-10 7:56 ` Oliver Neukum
2013-12-05 16:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2013-12-05 17:41 ` Harald Arnesen [this message]
2013-12-08 12:47 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-18 13:53 ` Mark Brown
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