On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 12:34 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
On 13 April 2011 12:25, Gordon Woodhull <gordon@woodhull.com> wrote:
I stand by avoiding gendered pronouns when referring to users in documentation, but it's up to individual taste. No "its" though. ;-)
Just say, "talks to the user in their language". Here's a discussion at a more appropriate forum:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48/gender-neutral-pronoun
Please don't do that. As noted on the stackexchange page, '"singular they" also enjoys a long history of criticism', and it certainly sounds wrong to me. It is correct, albeit a bit verbose, to use 'his or her', and if you don't wish to choose one gender over another, then please use both genders in that way. [My wife was a newspaper copyeditor for some time, and after having my grammar corrected for years, now I'm doing it to other people, scary...] -Hal
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