Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description
From: Bagas Sanjaya <hidden>
Date: 2021-08-12 08:35:42
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2021-07-15 · Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description · Junio C Hamano <hidden>
On 15/07/21 23.25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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+ - If you still need to refer to an example person that is + third-person singular, you may resort to "singular they" to avoid + "he/she/him/her", e.g. + + 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. +
Addendum: For grammatical correctness (for ESL people), proper, plural they can be used. So the last example can be rewritten as: Contributors ask their upstream to pull from their repository. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara