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From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>,
	"Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2021 16:25:30 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60f1f94a83f1e_14cb20828@natae.notmuch> (raw)
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:

> > > 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

-- 
Felipe Contreras

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-16 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-14  1:07 What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2021, #03; Tue, 13) Junio C Hamano
2021-07-14  2:16 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-07-14 16:30   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-14 22:39     ` Eric Sunshine
2021-07-14 22:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-14  8:42 ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2021-07-14 11:53   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-14 11:54   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-14 17:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-14 13:11 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-07-14 14:32   ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-15 16:25     ` [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description Junio C Hamano
2021-07-15 16:35       ` Eric Sunshine
2021-07-15 16:47         ` Taylor Blau
2021-07-15 18:02           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-16 21:25           ` Felipe Contreras [this message]
2021-07-15 17:27         ` Derrick Stolee
2021-07-16 15:11           ` Johannes Schindelin
2021-07-16 21:22           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-16 18:41       ` [PATCH v2] " Junio C Hamano
2021-07-16 19:05         ` Derrick Stolee
2021-07-16 19:11         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-16 19:50           ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-16 21:14             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-08-12  8:35       ` [PATCH] " Bagas Sanjaya
2021-07-14 20:11 ` What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2021, #03; Tue, 13) Taylor Blau
2021-07-19  7:35 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-07-19  7:53   ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-19  8:35     ` Jeff King
2021-07-19 10:42       ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-19 10:56         ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-07-19 11:25           ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-19  8:33   ` Jeff King
2021-07-19 10:41     ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-07-19 10:52       ` Jeff King
2021-07-19 18:40       ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-19 19:57         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-20  6:31           ` Patrick Steinhardt
2021-07-20  7:21             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-07-20  6:32           ` [PATCH] t0000: fix test if run with TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY Patrick Steinhardt
2021-07-20  7:11             ` Jeff King
2021-07-20 16:21               ` Junio C Hamano
2021-07-20  7:24             ` Felipe Contreras

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