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([2600:1700:e72:80a0:8dd3:e726:fe78:a0d9]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f9sm2882280qkl.46.2021.06.10.11.30.04 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 10 Jun 2021 11:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation: use singular they when appropriate To: Phillip Susi , Felipe Contreras Cc: Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget , git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com, sandals@crustytoothpaste.net, jrnieder@gmail.com, emilyshaffer@google.com, Derrick Stolee , Derrick Stolee References: <60be91757c6ca_db80d2086e@natae.notmuch> <87czsu98ar.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> From: Derrick Stolee Message-ID: <790688e5-6816-9837-85e7-2fdbbdf24169@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:30:04 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87czsu98ar.fsf@vps.thesusis.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On 6/9/2021 2:47 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > > Felipe Contreras writes: > >> Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget wrote: >>> From: Derrick Stolee >>> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches >>> @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ If you like, you can put extra tags at the end: >>> . `Acked-by:` says that the person who is more familiar with the area >>> the patch attempts to modify liked the patch. >>> . `Reviewed-by:`, unlike the other tags, can only be offered by the >>> - reviewer and means that she is completely satisfied that the patch >>> + reviewer and means that they are completely satisfied that the patch > > Say wait a minute. If that is a "singular they", then why was the "is" > changed to "are"? I think that belies the fact that there is no such > thing as a "singular they". Singular "they" works the same as singular "you". For example: ...means that _you are_ completely satisfied... Singular "you" had a similar backlash in the 1660s as singular "they" is having in this thread, but singular "you" has lasted (and we use "thou" only to signify someone using old-timey language). There is more of this in [1] and [2] [1] https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E2%80%93V_distinction#English Thanks, -Stolee