Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)

[Per Bothner]

On 3/4/20 4:47 PM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
> My two cents:
>
> > 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'

Least jarring, and recommended by many people I respect is "singular they":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

The coding standards document was written at a different time, and use
of "singular they" has becomes more common and accepted since then.

Obviously, I personally (sic) find "per" as a pronoun very jarring.
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