On Fri, 24.10.14 00:26, Alex Gaynor ([email protected]) wrote: > Lennart Poettering <lennart <at> poettering.net> writes: > > > > > hmm, why "their"? THat's wrong. It's the user's instance, hence must > > be singular. Or is this about his vs. her? If so I find "their" quite > > confusing, and if so, at least "his/her" would be better. > > > > Hi Lennart, > > In English it's perfectly valid to use "their" to refer to a singular person > of > unknown gender, and I think it would be a very good decision to revert your > revert :-). https://thoughtstreams.io/glyph/they-lives/ has a bit more info on > the history of the linguistic stuff, and why it's important.
Well, the sentence is complicated enough as it is. By sticking to a singular form it appears clearer to me what is meant here. I am fine with changing this to "her/his" if "his" alone is really is too bad, but "their" appears a lot more confusing. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
