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<p>I appreciate the trivia, I was not aware of that possibility. I
certainly envy the students of the language.<br>
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<p>But I'll presume you've since used English quite enough to be
considered fluent in it, unlike most other Koha contributors. And
if Kate is ready to learn genderless pronouns, as I'm sure are
most of the well rounded and educated individuals that make up
this community, <u>it is not intuitive nor easy, in fact it is
very very confusing</u> to the discrete contributor. An
unwarranted confusion, in my opinion.</p>
<p>Again, to be clear, we're not talking about the face of Koha
we're presenting to the world, the Product. We're talking about
coding guidelines for <u>code comments</u> added genuinely by
naive contributors. Lower the barrier to entry, do not raise
them!</p>
<p>Anyway... have a good day/night/evening/dusk/dawn/lunch<br>
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<p>Damn it! It's hard to be inclusive!<br>
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<p>Have a good they<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/19/2017 04:54 PM, Chris Cormack
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<pre wrap="">On 20 April 2017 at 07:48, Philippe Blouin <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:philippe.blouin@inlibro.com"><philippe.blouin@inlibro.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">That's no strawman, that's a genuine questionning.
You talk inclusivity, I'm all for it, but can we walk the talk now? 'They'
is a bigger barrier to entry than 'he' for non-English readers/coders. But
hey, what do I know, what is my perspective here? The stated initiative is
good: the majority of users are female, the code is male-centric, can we be
progressive, inclusive... But 'they' sucks. As I said, why not use "she" ?
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Interestingly enough, my first language Māori has no gendered pronouns at all.
All of them are non gendered. So they is much easier to understand for me.
Anei tōnā ngeru
Here is their cat.
There's your useless trivia for the day. Not all non english speakers
have gendered pronouns either :)
Chris
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