| Paul Hampson 2004-09-02, 6:55 pm |
| On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:29:14PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kevin B. McCarty:
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
[vbcol=seagreen]
> If this is really important, lintian could enforce a style guide that
> prohibts "it's" altogether, always requiring the spelled-out versions.
> (While we are at it, "e.g." and "i.e." are good candidates for a ban,
> too. 8-)
In that direction, we could (as I nearly suggested last week) ban all
personal pronouns to prevent displaying any gender bias, while not
putting the weight of Debian's collective English grammar behind any
particular gender-neutral personal singular pronoun.
^_^
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