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Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)
From: |
Jose E. Marchesi |
Subject: |
Re: Pronouns (please bear with me) |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:52:07 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
There is a perfectly good gender neutral pronoun in the English
language, viz: "one". If that's not appropriate for any reason, then
either choose "he" or "she" or if you want to be politically correct,
write "he or she".
Right.
Using English is what we should do, IMO. I personally use "she" in my
documentation, which is traditional in GNU. Using "he" should be right
as well, why not?
PS I have to add, as a non-native English speaker, the "singular they"
is particularly confusing to me.
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), (continued)
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/03/04
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Per Bothner, 2020/03/04
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Per Bothner, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), John Darrington, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Per Bothner, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), John Darrington, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Alexandre François Garreau, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), John Darrington, 2020/03/05
- Re: Pronouns (please bear with me),
Jose E. Marchesi <=
Re: Pronouns (please bear with me), Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/03/05