Re: Prefer non-gender specific pronouns

[Oğuz]

6 Haziran 2021 Pazar tarihinde Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> yazdı:

> On Sun, Jun 06, 2021 at 05:12:21PM +0300, Oğuz wrote:
>
> > If that really is a problem that has to be addressed and not
> > bike-shedding, let's compromise and say "his/her" instead of "his" or
> > "their".
>
> Possible, but it detracts from the clarity of the sentence that it is in.


So does "their".


>
> > Though I don't think women who read the manual and burst into tears out
> of
> > oppression when they see "his" actually exist.
>
> The important thing is that there is no intention to oppress/denigrate/...
> women by the use of 'his'.


Then there is no need to change anything.


> What word(s) are used in translations of the manual into languages other
> than
> English ? Do similar problems exist.


In mine, no. Turkish has only one pronoun for male, female, and inanimate.


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