From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933567Ab3LERl4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:41:56 -0500 Received: from mail-la0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:50070 "EHLO mail-la0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932997Ab3LERly (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Dec 2013 12:41:54 -0500 Message-ID: <52A0BADE.2030603@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:41:50 +0100 From: Harald Arnesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: One Thousand Gnomes , Pavel Machek CC: Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessarily gendered language References: <1386033532-25431-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> <20131205104808.GA6455@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20131205165429.34468e1b@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20131205165429.34468e1b@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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