On 11/01/16 19:13, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
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> Some people don't understand all these issues with she/he, for
> example, we in Russia are not really concern about this.
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I started using 'Gender Appropriate' language long before this PC
nonsense started up. Back in those days the word 'he' in instructions
included the female gender, which I though was stupid. Back then, and
also these days, I see no point in mentioning gender unless it is relevant.
So I use: one, they, their, and them. Which avoids the gender specific
problem, and also suggests (as is usually the case) that one or more
people are involved.
The problem with he/she is also that it is not totally politically
correct either, what about people who are a bit of both, and/or can't
decide? Not to mention people with multiple personalities, not always
of the same gender (I spent a few years conversing with people in the
usenet group alt.sexual.abuse.recovery - long story, but I got into it
when I did a project on network traffic). I also did some research when
I read an article that said about 10% of children born on an island
started life looking like girls, but changed into males at the time of
puberty, apparently about 0.5% (depending on precise definitions) of
children world wide are born not definitely of any particular gender.
Cheers,
Gavin
