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

> On 7/15/2021 12:35 PM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:25 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
>
> A way to adapt this idea more generally would be to pull a phrase
> from my commit message in v3:
>
>   Note that this sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to readers
>   who learned English in a way that dictated "they" as always plural.
>
> Learning English as a second language is one example of how one could
> find it ungrammatical. We could call it out explicitly:
>
>   Note that this sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to readers
>   who learned English in a way that dictated "they" as always plural,
>   especially those who learned English as a second language.