Re: Pronouns (please bear with me)

[John Darrington]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:57:00PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
     
     Least jarring, and recommended by many people I respect is "singular they":
     
     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
     
     The coding standards document was written at a different time, and use
     of "singular they" has becomes more common and accepted since then.
     
Singular they is extremely confusing, and just wrong.   When I see it I
think who are these people that we're talking about.

As "Per" is Per Bothner's first name, I can certainly understand why he
(per) finds it confusing.

There is a perfectly good gender neutral pronoun in the English
language, viz: "one".   If that's not appropriate for any reason, then
either choose "he" or "she" or if you want to be politically correct,
write "he or she".

J'