svn commit: r219424 - head/sbin/geom/class/eli

Garrett Cooper gcooper at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 9 09:15:09 UTC 2011


2011/3/9 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 07:43:51AM +0000, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
>> Author: pjd
>> Date: Wed Mar  9 07:43:51 2011
>> New Revision: 219424
>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/219424
>>
>> Log:
>>   Change example to not be controversial.
>>   I'm sorry to anyone who felt offended by this.
>>
>>   PR:         docs/155385
>
> Sorry to see these little jokes go, but Lena does have her merits.
> However, there are still traces of "sexism" present in new version:
> employee is assumed to be male.  :-)  Replacing "his" with "their"
> is standard way out in cases like this, I believe.

    Actually the proper way is "his or her". It's grammatically
correct and doesn't necessarily imply gender supremacy.
Thanks,
-Garrett


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