On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 11:18 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Westley Martínez wrote: > > > I believe singular they should not be used in formal writing. So what if > > you use it in an email? > > If you, personally, dislike it, then don't use it. But if you (generic > you) say that it is grammatically incorrect to do so, then you are > simply *wrong*. Some things are a matter of taste and individual > opinion, but the validity of singular-they is not one of them. > > And if you (generic you) insist that a grammatical feature which goes > back to Chaucer in written English, most likely a thousand years in > spoken English, and that is used by the King James Bible, is politically > correct zealotry created by feminists, well, that's just laughable. > > This is off-topic and we've put enough noise on the dev list about this. > If anyone wishes to continue a serious, good-faith discussion, I'm happy > to talk off-list.
For the record, I never said anything about politically correct zealotry. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
