I kinda second this, as a non native speaker the singular they sounds awkward/confusing/wrong/whatever. Maybe something like "the person's" (I hope everyone would self-recognize in this), "one's own", no adjective at all. It's a bit hard for me to understand that some person does not self recognize in either "he" or "she", but in the end it's always good to learn something new, and if something can be done to make everyone feel welcome, let's try it. By the way, I guess a few centuries ago the "singular you" would have sounded strange as well...
Marco On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > As a non native English speaker, I positively hate this. When you want to > say that a picture of a photographer whatever, you do not have to say "his > or her", it suffices to say "when a picture of a photographer is to be > used, prior permission has to be asked" or whatever. > > Yes, it may please you but this practise is not taught in schools and given > the size of the non-native community ... don't do this > Thanks, > GerardM > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
