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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]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=FpjK=ajfgrMLE+ksn4CRh0861Hrqq42qwDdj6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=VTvJWZAO-iKSCKV9meXPdwWVv+9LST=-NT=YK@mail.gmail.com>

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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  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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