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Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)


From: Per Bothner
Subject: Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2020 16:57:00 -0800
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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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        --Per Bothner
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