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

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 16, 2021, 21:25 UTC
Message-ID: <60f1f94a83f1e_14cb20828@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <YPBmv7x3zUbuQ2uy@nand.local>

Taylor Blau wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:25 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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