@rakekniven why administration?

@rakekniven why administration?

The Nextcloud project wants to have a gender neutral speech.
We had a lot related changes in the past.

@jancborchardt Do we have a post or guideline to reference?

The Nextcloud project wants to have a gender neutral speech.
We had a lot related changes in the past.

Cool, I really didn't realize "administrator" was not neutral.
Thank you.

Could you link the transifex issue in the PR? Or explain the reason behind it in the original post.

/backport to stable-3.17

you could also add the reason in the commit message.

Cool, I really didn't realize "administrator" was not neutral.

I did not know either. 👀 To my memory, English has mostly lost the relevance of gendered nouns centuries ago in Middle English. I am not on topic of gender neutral speech in English, though, not even a native speaker. Is this really neutralizing or already neutral by today's standards? Just asking to improve my English skills. 😁

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I assume this is related to the gender neutral language discussion from the forum. :)

Over there some time ago I did an assessment of what could be changed in the German translation, but also in the original (German post, translation is your friend ;): https://help.nextcloud.com/t/geschlechtsneutrale-sprache-genderneutral/82200/107?u=jan

In this case of "administrator" vs "administration" I’m not sure about changing it in English. From my feeling "administration" sounds a bit much like public administration as in government-related, but I’m not a native speaker.

would "team" be an appropriate word ?
for example:

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I am not a native speaker and may also miss some cultural references

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I did some googling and bumped into this:
https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/feminine-of-administrator-and-moderator.1437990/post-7277560

I understand this as 'administrator' is inherently masculine.

However https://deepgyan.com/english/grammar/nouns/feminine/feminine-of-administrator.php
states that 'administrator' is neutral.

I don't know a thrust source to check this.