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guys != gender neutral
- Subject: guys != gender neutral
- From: jra at baylink.com (Jay Ashworth)
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
---- Original Message -----
> From: "Simon Perreault" <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca>
> > *Words* (and only words) have gender.
>
> There's an RFC about that! RFC 6350, section 6.2.7, about the GENDER
> vCard property:
And kudos to Simon for bring it back to a semblence of on-topic-ness. Glad
to see that the authors of 6350 were thinking ahead, but I (and I think OED)
will continue to quibble with the choice of word. Just appropriating words
that mean other things is generally not a safe approach...
Cheers,
-- jra
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