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Re: guys != gender neutral


From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:02:51 -0400 (EDT)

---- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Perreault" <simon.perreault () 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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