From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 04:40:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Use singular "they" when appropriate
Message-ID: <3fcda131-1e59-341d-d4fa-473f203d5f9d@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <pull.975.git.1623085069.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Hi,

On 07/06/21 23.57, Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote:
> This patch series officially adopts singular "they" as a contributor
> guideline; see Patch 4 for the change to the guidelines and the reasoning
> for the change. Before modifying the guidelines, documentation and comments
> are updated to not use gendered pronouns, which provides examples of how to
> use it.

Sorry for late into this debate, because I'm still on recovering from 
fever a week ago (I still have headache and prefer eating less).

Honestly I'm against this patchset. There are concerns from ESL learners 
(myself included) which have been taught that `they` MUST be used as 
plural pronoun.

As an alternative while still keeping singular constructs, why don't we 
use gender neutral pronoun "it"?

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