8 Sep
2023
8 Sep
'23
12:04 a.m.
On Thu September 7 2023 16:12:18 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Thursday 07 September 2023 15:32:58 deloptes via
tde-users wrote:
"They" is polite and perfectly acceptable when gender is unknown or
irrelevant or many-valued (as in "For each person on the list please
ask them if they remembered to bring their passport" where them/their
is singular gender neutral). Pronouns are like variable declarations
where sometimes you need variant types. Despite my immense brain power
I have not memorized the gender of every TDE user.
Political opinions are a different matter and may be opined in
appropriate forums but not here.
On Thu September 7 2023 16:46:34 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
Ah, you have got caught up in our culture wars. It is a pity that this
stupid non-question has become an obsession for so many people who take
different sides and evidently do not know at all anything about, say,
linguistics or the established etymologies of words. As to Deloptes original question, I am unclear as
to whether they want
to
Delopes is a he :) They are (if in one person) anomaly :)
It is unusual feeling being called they, even if I understand the
politeness in the background. I just want to say it is not necessary for
me. Well, today using they is signalling progressiveness.
AFAIR from the
English classes "you" is sufficiently polite and would prefer this as
pronoun reffering my person.
"You" is second person and therefore not interchangeable with third
person "they".
And if someone can tell me how to solve the issue with
the generated mail,
it would be great.
On Thu September 7 2023 14:24:11 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
As to Deloptes original question, I am unclear as to
whether they want to
unsubscribe versus remain subscribed but not receive emails because they
are using Gmane. If the latter they can click on the archive link at the
bottom of list messages, log in, and at top right change their Mailman
Settings / Global Mailman preferences / Delivery status to disabled.
If you don't know whether you are subscribed you could look at the footer
of a list email you receive, or send me a copy of an entire email including
headers and footer if the answer is still unclear.
--Mike