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Gender-neutral pronouns
From: |
Tim Retout |
Subject: |
Gender-neutral pronouns |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:14:58 +0000 |
Hi again,
There is one place in maintain.texi where the gender-neutral pronouns
are not being used. Personally, I find them cumbersome, but it would be
nice to be consistent.
2007-12-29 Tim Retout <address@hidden>
* maintain.texi (Legally Significant Changes): Use
gender-neutral pronouns.
diff -u -r1.148 maintain.texi
--- maintain.texi 24 Nov 2007 22:45:19 -0000 1.148
+++ maintain.texi 29 Dec 2007 20:52:16 -0000
@@ -377,9 +377,9 @@
them.
When you record a small patch in a change log file, first search for
-previous changes by the same person, and see if his past
+previous changes by the same person, and see if per past
contributions, plus the new one, add up to something legally
-significant. If so, you should get copyright papers for all his
+significant. If so, you should get copyright papers for all per
changes before you install the new change.
If that is not so, you can install the small patch. Write @samp{(tiny
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part
- Gender-neutral pronouns,
Tim Retout <=