On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 11:11 +1200, Gavin Flower wrote: > On 28/04/14 03:53, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 05:04:09PM +0200, Karel Volný wrote: > >> Dne pátek, 25. dubna 2014 23:37:43 CEST, Adam Williamson napsal(a): > >>> In addition to what other people have said, there are people of more > >>> than one gender reading this list...please be respectful. > >> true hermaphrodites? > >> > >> K. > >> > >> (ok, is that just my poor English allowing me to see the unintended > >> meaning, or is that sentence ambiguous also for native speakers?) > > As a native speaker, yes, I can see it being ambiguous. Though, to be > > honest, I didn't catch it until you pointed it out. > > However, it is often non-native speakers who catch things like this. > > This can be embarrassing when married to a non-native speaker. > > > Actually there are people with multiple distinct personalities, and some > people have personalities with different genders. This can be caused by > extreme psychological abuse. > > Also about 0.5% (percentage varies according to definitions used) of > children are born with genitalia that are not clearly identifiable as > being definitely exactly one of the two standard sexes (male & female). > Some of characteristics of both. > > There are also people who are born definitely male physically, they get > married have children, then feel that they are really female and have an > operation to change their physical genitalia. > > Gender is far more complicated than most people realize, and there are > more variations and combinations than I have outlined above! Sure, but...we're now way, way, way, way off topic. I acknowledge my initial wording was technically ambiguous, but I'd hope the meaning was clear (as Leon correctly explained, I was suggesting it's not a good idea to start a post with simply "Gentlemen"). I don't think an advanced gender studies class is furthering the cause of Fedora in this particular instance. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
