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:
Mike Bird via tde-users wrote:
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.
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.
"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:
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