based on #12680 but some reductions: some cases were already changed by vim/vim (just according to keikaku) focus on direct mention of the user which was the major concern.
I watched one (I didn’t use your link though, sorry) and example with Facebook and picture update makes a lot of sense. Webpage doesn’t know if Tom Scott is an organisation, some group or one guy (well it knows much much more over all so maybe that’s not the case). But I can assume than my reader is one or another so s/he seems to me really fine. Unless you are addressing users of your software as a group? Or someone could rewrite sentence to avoid any words like she, they. This for me would be much prettier, more precise solution. But maybe “they” just needs to grow on me? I guess we will see :p
But I can assume than my reader is one or another so s/he seems to me really fine.
What about nonbinary people? Also, s/he sounds really awkward to me, much more than they. Like, how do you pronounce that? Shakespeare used they for gender neutral, it’s nothing new.
And, yeah, it sounded kind of weird to me when I first learned about it, but a while after using it and seeing other people use it, it’s second nature now.
I guess they are the slash? Hm, in my country it is quite often used form, except we usually add it at the end of the word as the difference in femine and masculine form happens there. Usually because of that I read the word two times. First time so I know it is there, second time in correct form for me. Maybe it isn’t super efficient but works fine in my language. So here if you are women you read she, if you are male you read he. I guess if you somehow don’t like any of the two options you can pick slash or just skip it as it isn’t applying to you.
I guess I got to read Shakespeare then :D Maybe I get accustom to this :)
I watched one (I didn’t use your link though, sorry) and example with Facebook and picture update makes a lot of sense. Webpage doesn’t know if Tom Scott is an organisation, some group or one guy (well it knows much much more over all so maybe that’s not the case). But I can assume than my reader is one or another so s/he seems to me really fine. Unless you are addressing users of your software as a group? Or someone could rewrite sentence to avoid any words like she, they. This for me would be much prettier, more precise solution. But maybe “they” just needs to grow on me? I guess we will see :p
What about nonbinary people? Also, s/he sounds really awkward to me, much more than they. Like, how do you pronounce that? Shakespeare used they for gender neutral, it’s nothing new.
And, yeah, it sounded kind of weird to me when I first learned about it, but a while after using it and seeing other people use it, it’s second nature now.
I guess they are the slash? Hm, in my country it is quite often used form, except we usually add it at the end of the word as the difference in femine and masculine form happens there. Usually because of that I read the word two times. First time so I know it is there, second time in correct form for me. Maybe it isn’t super efficient but works fine in my language. So here if you are women you read she, if you are male you read he. I guess if you somehow don’t like any of the two options you can pick slash or just skip it as it isn’t applying to you.
I guess I got to read Shakespeare then :D Maybe I get accustom to this :)