| ??? 08/11/07 11:15 Read: times |
#143098 - Gender specifics Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Jerson Fernandes said:
A technical query requires a technical response, no gender qualifications. Maarten Brock said:
I agree, but no language I know, including english, has a single word to point to either male or female. And calling people 'it' doesn't quite do it either IMO. So I guess we're stuck with using 'he' or 'she'. Quite so - although the content of the response may be technical, it still has to be addressed to a person! You can avoid gender-specifics by talking about "the OP" or "the writer", etc, or using "he/she" but it soon becomes very clumsy, as Russ notes: http://www.8052.com/forumchat/read.phtml?id=143095 See also: http://www.8052.com/forum/read.phtml?id=143093 |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| forum enhancement request | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The "a" in Teja tells it | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Maybe | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| in slavic languages this works, too | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Yes, like "Supernova"... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Ambiguous names | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| tennist | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Thanks, Andy. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not really | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| more and less technical? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| re: not really | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| he or she | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| hungarian | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| ... or they | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Gender specifics | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Latin | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Latin | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Sexism? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Another one: | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Good idea, Neil! :-) | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
re: Another one | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Gender profile | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I think Craig's on my wavelength | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| You missed the point entirely | 01/01/70 00:00 |