On Fri, Jun 07, 2024 at 11:47:08PM -0500, Jacob Bachmeyer via Gnupg-users wrote: > Few English-as-a-foreign-language courses should be expected to > mention singular "they", so its use is inappropriate in documentation.
There are lots of things that aren't taught in classrooms that still apply to the real world regardless of the subject. I don't expect people to know everything about English, but I do expect that people be open to learning new things, and anyone capable of learning English well enough to understand technical documentation should also be able to understand that "they" can be singular. I don't think it's all that different from understanding that "he" and its equivalents in many languages can be masculine and feminine depending on the context, a trait that's common to a lot of non-native English speakers' native languages. Eric _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
