On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Westley Martínez <aniko...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 00:54 -0800, Aaron DeVore wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Kerrick Staley <m...@kerrickstaley.com> > wrote: > > > That way, if the sysadmin does decide to replace the installed "python" > file, he can do so without inadvertently deleting the previously installed > binary. > > > > Nit pick: Change "he" to "they" to be gender neutral. > > Nit pick: Change "they" to "he" to be grammatically correct. If we > really have to be gender neutral, change "he" to "he or she". This grammatical "rule" is a modern fiction with no particular utility. Go ahead and use singular "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun; it was good enough for Shakespeare, Twain, Austen and Shaw, it should be good enough for Python. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Examples_of_generic_they
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