On 2004-08-07 23:02:10 +0100 Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> wrote:
I've been converting "he", "him", "his", and "himself" to "they", "them", "their", and "themself" respectively. I don't think the new version is harder to read.
For example, in http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-advocate it is no longer clear after "signed by a developer" whether "they" refers only to "NM" or to both "NM" and the developer who signed. I think it becomes clear at the end of the paragraph it's singular, but that's quite a wait.
I don't think a few anecdotes are a clear net benefit, given some of debian-women's preferred references say it's merely debatable.
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