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Not all languages will be as simple as s/his/their/ and s/her/their/.

• sheffield 15y ago
  But in English it is. It's acceptable to develop faster for certain (popular) languages.
  • jarek 15y ago
    Absolutely, but I would be surprised if they didn't have some code in the production version right now to support doubtlessly upcoming translated versions - perhaps not a full blown declension engine, but it seems unlikely they'd go English only at the start and retrofit everything later. The code might not be optimized to just let them do a simple find/replace for English.
    • sheffield 15y ago
      The problem of translation should not affect the writing of the original text.
      • jarek 15y ago
        For all you know, the "original text" is a mix of "foo bar" and lolspeak.
• afterburner 15y ago
  I read somewhere that other languages had more neutral gender splits, or simply all-masculine ones, to make things easier for now. So it could be in other languages they had nothing to reverse yet.