Re: Paper “Complexity of Go” b y Robson

Without discouraging speech of any kind, I'd like to suggest that the prior
statement was of the form "axe to grind" or "mild trolling".

s.

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 1:45 PM Dan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Mario Xerxes Castelán Castro <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Why the misandry? In English, “he” serves for both neutral and male
>> gender, but “she” always excludes men.
>>
>
> Standards change. I could give examples of constructions that used to be
> considered polite but are no longer, but by definition they wouldn't be
> polite...
>
> I'm not going to get into an argument about usage (and I hope no one else
> here is either, as that is not the subject of this mailing list), so this
> will be my only reply on the subject, but here is one starting point if you
> are interested in the topic, as you seem to be:
> https://www.apaonline.org/page/nonsexist (the American Philosophical
> Association's "Guidelines for Non-Sexist Use Of Language"). Searching for
> "gender-fair language" on the internet will turn up plenty of other
> resources.
>
> Dan
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