Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)

[Alexandre François Garreau]

My two cents:

Le jeudi 5 mars 2020, 00:13:24 CET danielp3344--- via Feedback on the GNU 
Coding Standards. a écrit :
> I'm guessing you may have already received some emails about this so I
> will try to be brief.
> 
> 'Per' is already a word […] somewhat harder to parse

> I propose just picking one of 'he' or 'she' 

Gnus manual uses “she” without any issue, and that binds really neatly 
with the funny tone of the work: most of uses ends up being about adminsys 
and other positions where women are already so underrepresented that it is 
necesseraly funny, and looks like denouncing that state of fact in a light 
manner.

Additionnally as everything within GNU uses texinfo, it wouldn’t be really 
difficult to make @person @per @pers macros that the user / distro could 
configure at compile so that to agree with chosen tastes or guidelines or 
widest usage across the distribution manuals.  It could be by default 
“she” or “per”, and be configurable otherwise.