linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessarily gendered language

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Message-ID: <52A0BADE.2030603@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Dec 2013 18:41:50 +0100
From:	Harald Arnesen <skogtun.linux@...il.com>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
CC:	Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessarily gendered language

One Thousand Gnomes [2013-12-05 17:54]:

>>> @@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ Quota netlink interface
>>>  When user exceeds a softlimit, runs out of grace time or reaches hardlimit,
>>>  quota subsystem traditionally printed a message to the controlling terminal of
>>>  the process which caused the excess. This method has the disadvantage that
>>> -when user is using a graphical desktop he usually cannot see the message.
>>> +when user is using a graphical desktop they usually cannot see the
>>>  message.

> I would argue that "This method has the disadvantage that when user
> is using a graphical desktop he usually cannot see the message." 

How about:

"This method has the disadvantage that, when using a graphical desktop,
the user usually cannot see the message" - or something similar? Gender
neutral, and not _too_ cumbersome, aside from the "user...usually".
-- 
Hilsen Harald
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