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From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingGuidelines: recommend gender-neutral description
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:35:32 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3eed187-6f16-65eb-a4e5-cb747ba5f36a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqk0lrtuh4.fsf_-_@gitster.g>

On 15/07/21 23.25, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> +  - 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.

-- 
An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-08-12  8:35 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
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       ` Bagas Sanjaya [this message]
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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