[468] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto constitution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Al Billings)
Fri May 21 14:27:52 1993
Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 11:08:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Al Billings <mimir@u.washington.edu>
To: "J. Michael Diehl" <mdiehl@triton.unm.edu>
Cc: Skye Merlin Poier <poier@sfu.ca>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9305210517.AA08527@triton.unm.edu>
On Thu, 20 May 1993, J. Michael Diehl wrote:
> I've always thought that fighting over this kind of trivia was kinda childish.
> It used to be that when someone said, "...and one giant step for mankind...,"
> that we understood this to include EVERYBODY! Lets pick our fights better
> than this, shall we?
Unfortunatly for you (in a small way), people teaching English do not
agree. I have done more than my share of term papers and articles and in
the cases where I have used "man" for "humanity," it HAS been noticed.
There is no reason NOT to use gender neutral terms. It isn't going to hurt
you to do so and some people out there will appreciate it and will notice
if gendered terms are used. Why not then?
Wassail,
Al Billings
