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

​Thanks!​ That's a great relief to me, as I'm sure you can imagine.

​You just stated that the reason you don't want to use the plural form I suggested is because it's too hard/time-consuming. That does suggest you accept that it's a valid solution but you're too lazy to use it.​

​That's your opinion; my opinion remains otherwise. It's not "perfectly reasonable" to abuse the plural because some 1960s feminazis either misunderstood or didn't like the fact that (because of history) in English the gender-neutral singular happens to also be the male singular.

Happily for me, I can continue to write documents in a grammatically correct way, and no-one will read them and think I'm a grammar-nazi (or obstinate, or old-fashioned or whatever) because unless they're specifically looking for it no-one will notice that I'm avoiding the contentious usage altogether. On the other hand, there _will_ be a (perhaps significant) proportion of people who read your documents and think that you're incapable of writing a grammatically correct sentence.