From: | Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Make primnodes.h gender neutral |
Date: | 2016-03-17 21:29:48 |
Message-ID: | CACjxUsOn+enQh9XWmTdaxNr9DAbcHapckVU7CacYrL=V+zaKvg@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I think it's important that we fix these issues in a way that doesn't
> degrade the readability of the prose, and that doesn't call attention
> to itself as "hey, we're being so politically correct!". We're trying
> to convey technical information in a way that does not distract the
> reader from the technical content. Sexist language is a distraction
> for some, in-your-face non-sexism (such as made-up pronouns) is a
> distraction for others, bad or awkward grammar is a distraction for yet
> others. It's not that easy to write prose that manages not to call
> attention to itself in any of these ways. But that's what we need to
> do, and s/xxx/yyy/g editing that's only thinking about one of these
> concerns is unlikely to get us there.
+1
> I also concur with Alvaro that fixing these issues one para at a time
> is pretty inefficient.
A grep with a quick skim of the results to exclude references to
particular people who are mentioned by name and then referred to
with a pronoun (which I assume we can leave alone), suggest there
are about 70 lines in the 1346667 line C code base that need work.
Any word-smiths out there who want to volunteer to sort this out?
--
Kevin Grittner
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