Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation

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От Andrew Dunstan
Тема Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation
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Msg-id 560161A6.9000900@dunslane.net
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Ответ на Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation  (Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>)
Ответы Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation  (Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>)
Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Use gender-neutral language in documentation  (Peter Geoghegan <pg@heroku.com>)
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On 09/22/2015 09:25 AM, Geoff Winkless wrote:
>  If someone sends me a document that uses "their" in a singular usage,
> I will think that person is lazy. That will continue to be the case,
> whether people tell me that it's accepted usage or not.


You can think that if you like, but it's not even remotely true. It's a
deliberate choice to use a new, perfectly reasonable and now widely
accepted style of which you disapprove, but it's not lazy.


cheers

andrew


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