On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 5:50 AM Léa Gris <lea.g...@noiraude.net> wrote:
> Le 05/06/2021 à 18:47, John Passaro écrivait : > > I can see a couple reasons why it would be a good thing, and in the con > > column only "I personally don't have time to go through the manual and > make > > these changes". but I'd happily upvote a patch from somebody that does. > > I can see so many reasons why it would be a bad thing to let the cancel > culture adepts slip in here, rewriting bash documentations with their > custom grammar. > Using 'they' for a generic, indefinite person, like the user here, one who could be anyone, is totally normal use of the language, and not even a very new invention. It's not the same as calling a definite person of known gender 'they'. In fact, that generic 'they' is so common and accepted, that you just used it yourself in the part I quoted above.
