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> s/he Just use they, it reads better and includes everyone instead of people with binary genders
by pingiun 6y ago
> s/he
Just use they, it reads better and includes everyone instead of people with binary genders
- specialist 6y agoAgreed. I've been retraining myself to default to singular they. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they Old dog, new tricks. But I'm slowly adapting.
- _underfl0w_ 6y agoI've also personally never understood the slash syntax. Since one word requires the "s" and the other doesn't, shouldn't we use parentheses like when words may or may not be plural? e.g. "(s)he" like you might say "socket(s)" or "Unix(es)"? Moot point if it doesn't solve the issue of it still being binary, I guess.
- dragonwriter 6y agoIronically, with “they” becoming a more common specific-individual-identity-pronoun preference, it is at risk of losing its inclusivity, and of becoming as problematic for unknown individual preference as she and he. But that's a problem for the future, right now “they” is usually the best inclusive pronoun available.