RE: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: use singular they when appropriate

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Kerry, Richard wrote:
> What do you prefer?
> 
>   A. We thank the reviewer for their helpful comments
>   B. We thank the reviewer for her helpful comments
> 
> [RK] If this is, as it appears to be, a reference to a specific reviewer, then use their preferred pronoun, or possibly a conventional singular one if you know their name and they haven't specified a preference.  
> [RK] Only if they aren't known, and especially if they are one from a pool, then "their".
> [RK] Or make them plural - We thank the reviewers for their helpful comments.
> [RK]  Or rephrase to sidestep the issue (though it isn't clear to me here what that option would be)

The question is not what sort of rules you would like us to enforce (I
for one don't believe in policing speech).

The question is what you as a native English speaker, or non-native
speaker, think of the sentences as they are. Do they sound grammatically
correct to you?


Would it be possible for you to use quoted line prefix [1] as is common
on this mailing list? We only have the beginnings of a mailing list
etiquette [2], but this is something that reads very different from
everyone else.

Cheers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Quoted_line_prefix
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/20210512233412.10737-1-dwh@linuxprogrammer.org/

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Felipe Contreras