[Noisebridge-discuss] 2 sleepers this morning

[Romy Ilano]

I hope people reading the list don't think the people at noise bridge argue over semantics like this 100% of the time . 


When we aren't fleeing tech talks we actually hack.. This discussion is maybe 1% of the real activity that goes on
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> On Feb 15, 2014, at 10:35 PM, Hannah Grimm <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> "It" refers to objects, not people, so pretending you have some grammatical high-ground here is ludicrous. 
> 
> Not to mention, we use "they" singularly all the time in our language, and have since Shakespeare.  Since before Shakespeare.  Since Chaucer.
> 
> Imagine that sentence without the dehumanizing "it": "Male or female THEY should be gone."  Hardly going to destroy the English language.
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>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Al Sweigart <asweigart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No-hat aka Josh was out of town over the holidays, but before then Ive found him sleeping overnight at Noisebridge. He's been doing this a while.
>> 
>>> On Feb 15, 2014 9:43 PM, "Hannah Grimm" <dharlette at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Can you NOT refer to people of unknown gender as "it?"  We already have a word for that which doesn't dehumanize people by comparing them to objects.  It's "they."
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Norman Bradley <pryankster at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> N0_Hat is also spamming the wiki and should be GONE. Male or female IT should be gone.
>>>> You are entitled to your own opinion.
>>>> You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
>>>> 
>>>> Norman
>>>>> On 2/15/2014 7:57 PM, Paul Monad wrote:
>>>>> One in turing named sid.  Other was __Hat. Both claimed they were just napping.
>>>>> Nick was here but not sleeping.
>>>>> 
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