On Thu September 7 2023 16:12:18 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Thursday 07 September 2023 15:32:58 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > > Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: > > > As to Deloptes original question, I am unclear as to whether they want > > > to > > > > Delopes is a he :) They are (if in one person) anomaly :) > > It is unusual feeling being called they, even if I understand the > > politeness in the background. I just want to say it is not necessary for > > me. > > Ah, you have got caught up in our culture wars. It is a pity that this > stupid non-question has become an obsession for so many people who take > different sides and evidently do not know at all anything about, say, > linguistics or the established etymologies of words. "They" is polite and perfectly acceptable when gender is unknown or irrelevant or many-valued (as in "For each person on the list please ask them if they remembered to bring their passport" where them/their is singular gender neutral). Pronouns are like variable declarations where sometimes you need variant types. Despite my immense brain power I have not memorized the gender of every TDE user. Political opinions are a different matter and may be opined in appropriate forums but not here. On Thu September 7 2023 16:46:34 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > Well, today using they is signalling progressiveness. AFAIR from the > English classes "you" is sufficiently polite and would prefer this as > pronoun reffering my person. "You" is second person and therefore not interchangeable with third person "they". > And if someone can tell me how to solve the issue with the generated mail, > it would be great. On Thu September 7 2023 14:24:11 Mike Bird via tde-users wrote: > As to Deloptes original question, I am unclear as to whether they want to > unsubscribe versus remain subscribed but not receive emails because they > are using Gmane. If the latter they can click on the archive link at the > bottom of list messages, log in, and at top right change their Mailman > Settings / Global Mailman preferences / Delivery status to disabled. If you don't know whether you are subscribed you could look at the footer of a list email you receive, or send me a copy of an entire email including headers and footer if the answer is still unclear. --Mike ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
