Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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". Thanks. Last-minute edit always screwes me up. >> > + 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. Yes, the language is living and drifting---and that is why it matters when and where you learned ;-)
