From: Rory Molinari <quokka@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Grammar (was: Semantic data in ConTeXt?)
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:53:18 -0700 [thread overview]
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:48 AM, John Haltiwanger
<john.haltiwanger@gmail.com> wrote:
> Whether it is useless/'no problem exists' is not up to you to decide:
> it is up to those who do find it important. As long as some people
> find it important, no childish dismissals will remove that importance.
>
> It seems the most successful/widely adopted form is to vary from 'he'
> to 'she' (so that in one sentence you use one, in the next another).
> Some authors even change the gender within a sentence. This method was
> adopted because 'one' (the "real" correct unisex pronoun) is just too
> awkward for extended use. The morphographic he/she/he/she method reads
> surprisingly well.
I would find a switch like that weird and disconcerting, as if the
text were "unmoored" in some sense.
I usually flip a coin to choose between "he" and "she" before I start
a document, and stick with it. (If I think the issue might be of
interest to the reader I add a footnote explaining this.)
I very much dislike the singular "they", though its use goes back centuries.
Cheers,
Rory
>
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Matija Šuklje <matija@suklje.name> wrote:
>> Dne ponedeljek 26. julija 2010 ob 01:47:13 je David Rogers napisal(a):
>>> * Matija Šuklje <matija@suklje.name> [2010-07-25 23:33]:
>>> >-.-.-
>>> >P.S. Is there a nicer wording then "(s)he" for referencing persona in
>>> >unisex gender (other then "one")?
>>>
>>> The correct unisex pronoun is "he". This whole question is an invented
>>> problem where no real problem exists.
>>
>> Thanks for explaining. This unisex and other politically correct stuff is
>> always a bit odd.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matija
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-24 22:50 Semantic data in ConTeXt? Matija Šuklje
2010-07-25 10:02 ` Hans Hagen
2010-07-25 21:33 ` Matija Šuklje
2010-07-25 21:39 ` Martin Schröder
2010-07-25 21:50 ` Matija Šuklje
2010-07-25 21:41 ` Martin Schröder
2010-07-25 21:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-07-26 7:13 ` Hans Hagen
2010-07-25 23:47 ` Grammar (was: Semantic data in ConTeXt?) David Rogers
2010-07-26 8:23 ` Matija Šuklje
2010-07-26 9:48 ` John Haltiwanger
2010-07-26 10:06 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-26 10:20 ` Grammar luigi scarso
2010-07-26 11:56 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-26 12:38 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-26 19:33 ` Grammar Martin Schröder
2010-07-26 20:44 ` Grammar Matija Šuklje
2010-07-27 16:53 ` Rory Molinari [this message]
2010-07-27 23:12 ` Grammar (was: Semantic data in ConTeXt?) Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-28 0:00 ` Grammar Hans Hagen
2010-07-28 9:33 ` Grammar John Haltiwanger
2010-07-28 0:18 ` Grammar (was: Semantic data in ConTeXt?) Rory Molinari
2010-07-28 0:20 ` Marcin Borkowski
2010-07-27 6:10 ` Alan BRASLAU
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