On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:35:30PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 12:25 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Technical writing seeks to convey information with minimal
> > friction. One way that a reader can experience friction is if they
> > encounter a description of "a user" that is later simplified using a
> > gendered pronoun. If the reader does not consider that pronoun to
> > apply to them, then they can experience cognitive dissonance that
> > removes focus from the information.
> >
> > Give some basic tips to guide us avoid unnecessary of gendered
> > description.
>
> Some words seem to be missing from this sentence.
I assume that it's supposed to read "guide us [to] avoid unnecessary
[uses] of gendered description".
>
> > diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
> > @@ -541,6 +541,49 @@ Writing Documentation:
> > + A contributor asks their upstream to pull from them.
> > +
> > + Note that this sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to those who
> > + learned English as a second language in some parts of the world.
>
> It also sounds ungrammatical and unnatural to this native English speaker.
Apologies if this suggestion has been made earlier in the thread, but
this article
https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar/singular-they
document from the APA's style guide helps convince me that this is
grammatical.
Thanks,
Taylor
