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26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: npostavs <at> gmail.com, 32731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rms <at> gnu.org,
 Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#32731: 26.1.50; Ibuffer filter by mode: Handle >1 mode names
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 10:14:11 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 05:48:43 +0900 (JST)
>> Cc: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>, 32731 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>> 	npostavs <at> gmail.com
>> 
>> > "She/he" seems to exclude nonbinary genders.
>> > "S?he" does not HAVE to mean "only she or he".
>> I don't feel excluded if I read "she".  Maybe I have enough 
>> self-confidence or I know the difference between
>> sex and gramatical genre.
>> Anyway, whatever Eli likes is fine for me.
>
> I usually just rewrite the text to be in plural, like "the users"
> instead of "the user".  Then "they" is correct English.

Point of order: singular they has been correct English for the last
700 years. Some people donʼt like it, but that doesnʼt make it wrong.

Robert

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