Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description

Taylor Blau wrote:

On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:25 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines

@@ -541,6 +541,49 @@ Writing Documentation:
+      A contributor asks their upstream to pull from them.
+
+    Note that this sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to those who
+    learned English as a second language in some parts of the world.

It also sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to this native English speaker.

Apologies if this suggestion has been made earlier in the thread, but
this article

    https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar/singular-they

document from the APA's style guide helps convince me that this is
grammatical.

That's the opinion of one organization (biased in my opinion). Other
organizations disagree:

https://ahdictionary.tumblr.com/post/147597257733/updated-usage-note-they

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Felipe Contreras