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Feel like it would be easier if he rewrote it from scratch and then copied the business logic

by donkarma 4y ago

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viraptor 4y ago
Well, you can do it and write it up. I'm sure it will be interesting too.
jmcgough 4y ago
Foone uses they/them pronouns.
- dark-star 4y ago
  - ryan-c 4y ago
    Doesn't matter if you care or not, use the correct ones.
    - tacker2000 4y ago
    - dark-star 4y ago
      Or else what? you'll be sending the gender cops my way? ;-) I don't have the time or energy to search for everyone's favorite pronoun before talking about them. If it's someone I personally know or talk to on a regular basis, then I will certainly use their preferred pronoun out of habit. But I expect people to accept that some people just care less about their pronouns than they do. I know this is a hard to grasp concept in this day and age... I don't want people to call me "buddy" or "bro" but I accept it when they call me like that because I respect their choice
      - ghusbands 4y ago
        I'm sure you'll accept correction between "he" and "she", so what you're actually saying here is that you're opposed to being corrected to "they".
        dark-star 4y ago
        I have never encountered a correction between "he" and "she", personally, because either the name or the appearance usually makes it very clear. I admit that it's harder for some names ("Andrea" comes to mind, or "Kim") especially if you have never met that person, but these cases didn't come up in my experience yet, so maybe I just have a small circle of friends or something... ;-) And you mis-read my comment, I didn't say I'm opposed to being corrected, but I expect people to accept that others might "mis-pronoun" them, and not expect everyone to first search their whole social media presence for the correct pronouns.
      - vangelis 4y ago
        Ok ma'am.
  - unsafecast 4y ago
    If you don't care just use they. It works no matter how the person identifies themselves, and it's really straightforward.
    - smcl 4y ago
      At least in English you can structure sentences to be pronoun agnostic, as long as you have some way to refer to the users
      - unsafecast 4y ago
        I'm not sure why using 'them' is any worse. It's a nice identity-agnostic pronoun. Mixing pronouns with names is much more natural than repeatedly using the name. I don't get why it's an issue at all.
        dark-star 4y ago
        I guess because "they" and "them" is plural, and it can confuse people to think that you're talking about a group of people instead of a single person? At least that's what confuses me (as non-native speaker) quite often when I read someone talking about "them"
        ghusbands 4y ago
        Singular "they" predates singular "you" [1]. If someone tells you otherwise, tell them they are wrong. That use of "them" as in the previous sentence has been correct for centuries. [1] https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/ https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
        smcl 4y ago
        I'm saying that if you don't know a person's pronouns at all and you're not sure if they/them sounds right, you largely can avoid it altogether. And I don't mean by just repeating their name over and over (which I agree sounds weird), so if we take the original comment: > Feel like it would be easier if he rewrote it from scratch and then copied the business logic then using their name is totally pronoun agnostic as discussed: > Feel like it would be easier if foone rewrote it from scratch and then copied the business logic but you can also not use name, pronoun or anything: > Feel like it would be easier to rewrite the app from scratch and then copy the business logic or: > Feel like it would be easier if the app was rewritten from scratch, and then the business logic could be copied English is really flexible, and to be honest I think these look quite natural and don't sound like I'm nervously trying to avoid offending anyone.

Feel like it would be easier if he rewrote it from scratch and then copied the business logic

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viraptor 4y ago

Well, you can do it and write it up. I'm sure it will be interesting too.

jmcgough 4y ago

Foone uses they/them pronouns.

dark-star 4y ago
- ryan-c 4y ago
  Doesn't matter if you care or not, use the correct ones.
  - tacker2000 4y ago
  - dark-star 4y ago
    Or else what? you'll be sending the gender cops my way? ;-) I don't have the time or energy to search for everyone's favorite pronoun before talking about them. If it's someone I personally know or talk to on a regular basis, then I will certainly use their preferred pronoun out of habit. But I expect people to accept that some people just care less about their pronouns than they do. I know this is a hard to grasp concept in this day and age... I don't want people to call me "buddy" or "bro" but I accept it when they call me like that because I respect their choice
    - ghusbands 4y ago
      I'm sure you'll accept correction between "he" and "she", so what you're actually saying here is that you're opposed to being corrected to "they".
      - dark-star 4y ago
        I have never encountered a correction between "he" and "she", personally, because either the name or the appearance usually makes it very clear. I admit that it's harder for some names ("Andrea" comes to mind, or "Kim") especially if you have never met that person, but these cases didn't come up in my experience yet, so maybe I just have a small circle of friends or something... ;-) And you mis-read my comment, I didn't say I'm opposed to being corrected, but I expect people to accept that others might "mis-pronoun" them, and not expect everyone to first search their whole social media presence for the correct pronouns.
    - vangelis 4y ago
      Ok ma'am.
- unsafecast 4y ago
  If you don't care just use they. It works no matter how the person identifies themselves, and it's really straightforward.
  - smcl 4y ago
    At least in English you can structure sentences to be pronoun agnostic, as long as you have some way to refer to the users
    - unsafecast 4y ago
      I'm not sure why using 'them' is any worse. It's a nice identity-agnostic pronoun. Mixing pronouns with names is much more natural than repeatedly using the name. I don't get why it's an issue at all.
      - dark-star 4y ago
        I guess because "they" and "them" is plural, and it can confuse people to think that you're talking about a group of people instead of a single person? At least that's what confuses me (as non-native speaker) quite often when I read someone talking about "them"
        ghusbands 4y ago
        Singular "they" predates singular "you" [1]. If someone tells you otherwise, tell them they are wrong. That use of "them" as in the previous sentence has been correct for centuries. [1] https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they/ https://public.oed.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-singular-they...
      - smcl 4y ago
        I'm saying that if you don't know a person's pronouns at all and you're not sure if they/them sounds right, you largely can avoid it altogether. And I don't mean by just repeating their name over and over (which I agree sounds weird), so if we take the original comment: > Feel like it would be easier if he rewrote it from scratch and then copied the business logic then using their name is totally pronoun agnostic as discussed: > Feel like it would be easier if foone rewrote it from scratch and then copied the business logic but you can also not use name, pronoun or anything: > Feel like it would be easier to rewrite the app from scratch and then copy the business logic or: > Feel like it would be easier if the app was rewritten from scratch, and then the business logic could be copied English is really flexible, and to be honest I think these look quite natural and don't sound like I'm nervously trying to avoid offending anyone.