Hi Junio, On Tue, 8 Jun 2021, Junio C Hamano wrote: > "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > To futher justify singular "they" as an acceptable grammatical concept, > > I include the careful research of brian m. carlson who collected their > > thoughts on this matter [2] (lightly edited): > > The use of "their" here I found going overboard, given that (1) it > is outside the topic of this change, where you are not referring to > a non-specific person, and (2) as Brian's siglines indicate, the > preferred pronouns for the particular person you are referring to is > "he/him or they/them". For your record, while I sometimes mention that I use "he/him" to refer to myself, I promise I will never be offended if you refer to me via "they/them". ;-) Ciao, Dscho
