Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)

[Per Bothner]

On 3/4/20 5:35 PM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
> Le jeudi 5 mars 2020, 01:57:00 CET Per Bothner a écrit :
> > Least jarring, and recommended by many people I respect is "singular
> > they":
>
> It is less precise than “per”, and may still look ungrammatical to some
> speakers, like rms, who notably dislike it, and that’s why “per” is now
> used (and wasn’t before).  Afaik this usage of “per” there is more recent
> than wide acceptance of “singular they” (at least it was already teached
> in french schools more than 10 years ago, and rms nor then GNU didn’t
> promote “per” at that time).

Trust me: Nobody (*) in the US uses "per" as a personal pronoun.
I'm pretty sure the same is true in other English-speaking countries.

(*) For all practical purposes.
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