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seejay on April 4, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

Yes, I'm very sorry for not being an expert in foreign names HN. Thank you.

mod on April 4, 2017 | [–]

Why make an assumption at all? Why did you need a pronoun there? Particularly a gendered one?

nojvek on April 4, 2017 | | [–]

I know a couple of women named Gabe. I think that assumption could be misleading.

lucideer on April 4, 2017 | [–]

Yeah, that's fair enough.

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