| From: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>, Gavin Flower <GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-committers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-committers-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation |
| Date: | 2015-09-22 17:43:49 |
| Message-ID: | CAM3SWZQhkTL+beWQ+M7JDM4jRnvgSBRahS3TAUUio3-wOQw9Lg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> You can think that if you like, but it's not even remotely true. It's a
> deliberate choice to use a new, perfectly reasonable and now widely accepted
> style of which you disapprove, but it's not lazy.
It never occurred to me that this usage is even non-traditional. I am
a native English speaker born in Ireland in the 1980s.
--
Peter Geoghegan
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