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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 2013 14:18:20 -0500
From:      Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?R8OhYm9yIEvDtnZlc2TDoW4=?= <gabor@kovesdan.org>
Cc:        svn-doc-head@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, Benedict Reuschling <bcr@freebsd.org>, doc-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r43163 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/security
Message-ID:  <CAF6rxgnGwdiJgbbzuYmOsbd4UME26iHna0UZ6=XEcZO9A-xA5w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5280F07E.20000@kovesdan.org>
References:  <201311110921.rAB9L5RF075426@svn.freebsd.org> <5280F07E.20000@kovesdan.org>

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On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 9:58 AM, G=C3=A1bor K=C3=B6vesd=C3=A1n <gabor@koves=
dan.org> wrote:
> On 2013.11.11. 10:21, Benedict Reuschling wrote:
>>
>> Author: bcr
>> Date: Mon Nov 11 09:21:05 2013
>> New Revision: 43163
>> URL:http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43163
>>
>> Log:
>>    Make the security charter wording less gender biased.
>>       Submitted by:     Kubilay Kocak
>>    Approved by: des
>>
>> Modified:
>>    head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/security/charter.xml
>>
>> Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/security/charter.xml
>>
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/security/charter.xml    Mon Nov 11
>> 06:54:40 2013        (r43162)
>> +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/security/charter.xml    Mon Nov 11
>> 09:21:05 2013        (r43163)
>> @@ -73,11 +73,11 @@
>>         <li>Veto: The Security Officer has the final say in security
>>         matters, and may request the back-out of any commits or
>> -      elimination of any subsystems that he considers detrimental
>> +      elimination of any subsystems that they consider detrimental
>>         to the security of FreeBSD.</li>
>
> My English is not perfect but is there such a use? Subject and verb in
> singular and pronoun in plural? This sounds strange to me. I often see
> she/her being used when the gender is not determined by the subject but I
> have never seen this use.

The pronoun is semantically singular but irregular.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they





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Eitan Adler
Source, Ports, Doc committer
Bugmeister, Ports Security teams



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