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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
User-agent: 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.



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