Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)

[Alexandre François Garreau]

Le jeudi 5 mars 2020, 21:33:15 CET danielp3344--- via Feedback on the GNU 
Coding Standards. a écrit :
> I'm not proposing the use of they as a singular pronoun. I'm proposing
> use of 'he' or 'she' which are actual english pronouns. To be perfectly
> honest the first time I heard someone say 'per' (In a recorded talk) it
> took me a good 5 minutes to figure out what was going on. Are users
> really offended by the use of gender in hypothetical situations?

Some are.  Ironically, not always, or most of time, for the matter, those 
who this regards.  But then these tell others, and the others are like “oh 
I would be offended” (if they would read it).

Also I think if they don’t, it’s more likely because few people take time 
to read manuals, especially info manuals (they pass a lot more time on 
brief --help or man pages), as they’re less advertised, because it’s 
mostly GNU who use them.  That’s likely why I never saw that (and also 
because GNU have a bunch of manuals using “she”, “s/he” or “person”).