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

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 12, 2021, 08:35 UTC
Message-ID: <c3eed187-6f16-65eb-a4e5-cb747ba5f36a@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0lrtuh4.fsf_-_@gitster.g>

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.

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