----Original Message---- From: brangdon@cix.compulink.co.uk [mailto:brangdon@cix.compulink.co.uk] Sent: 08 November 2005 21:58 To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Gender neutral documentation
In-Reply-To: <dkl36d$2ak$1@sea.gmane.org> andy@servocomm.freeserve.co.uk (Andy Little) wrote (abridged):
Where it is used 'she' always refers to 'the user'.
If you have two protagonists (author and user) it can help to give them different genders and to be consistent about which way round they are.
I dont use that convention myself for obvious reasons !
Hmm. I suspect we could argue about this for weeks.
Weeks? I would have said that was out by about two orders of magnitude :-) My prediction is that a consensus will emerge on how to handle this across the English speaking(writing) world - by about the middle of this century. -- Martin Bonner Martin.Bonner@Pitechnology.com Pi Technology, Milton Hall, Ely Road, Milton, Cambridge, CB4 6WZ, ENGLAND Tel: +44 (0)1223 441434