[156888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: guys != gender neutral
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Sep 28 13:03:05 2012
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <5065D3B8.8080704@viagenie.ca>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
---- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Perreault" <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca>
> > *Words* (and only words) have gender.
>
> There's an RFC about that! RFC 6350, section 6.2.7, about the GENDER
> vCard property:
And kudos to Simon for bring it back to a semblence of on-topic-ness. Glad
to see that the authors of 6350 were thinking ahead, but I (and I think OED)
will continue to quibble with the choice of word. Just appropriating words
that mean other things is generally not a safe approach...
Cheers,
-- jra
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