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Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.
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Leo Famulari |
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Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option. |
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Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:21:31 -0400 |
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On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 06:36:20AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 08:45:27PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
>
> ps Cl??ment: 'them'/'they' are pronouns if you don't know the gender
> and/or
> prefered pronoun of a person :)
>
>
> ... according to some. - but most linguists, and many orators (the president
> of
> the Free Software Foundation being one of them) consider this to be a misuse
> of
> the English language and refuse to (mis)use these words for such a purpose.
As a native USA English speaker, I think this usage is fine, and widely
accepted by speakers, at least in this country. There are some cases
where it sounds a little clunky, but we don't have other words for this
use case that enjoy wider common usage.
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- Re: grammar usage, (continued)
- Re: grammar usage, Andy Wingo, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage, John Darrington, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage, Andy Wingo, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage, Ricardo Wurmus, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage, John Darrington, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage, Mathieu Lirzin, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/03/18
- Re: grammar usage, ng0, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.), Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2017/03/17
- Re: grammar usage (was: Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.), John Darrington, 2017/03/17
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option.,
Leo Famulari <=
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., John Darrington, 2017/03/17
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., ng0, 2017/03/18
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., Mathieu Lirzin, 2017/03/18
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., ng0, 2017/03/18
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., John Darrington, 2017/03/18
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., Catonano, 2017/03/18
- Re: [PATCH 4/4] services: openssh: Add 'subsystems' option., Catonano, 2017/03/18
- Being excellent to one another, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/03/18
- Re: Being excellent to one another, dian_cecht, 2017/03/19
- Re: Being excellent to one another, John Darrington, 2017/03/19