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There's a discussion on Stack exchange here: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30455/is-using-he-for-a-gender-neutral-third-person-correct http://engli
by jiggy2011 13y ago
There's a discussion on Stack exchange here:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30455/is-using-he-for-a-gender-neutral-third-person-correct http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30455/is-using-he...
But I would still class the late 1800s as relatively "historical" compared with tech documentation.
- tptacek 13y agoYou misread me. The effort to eradicate singular "they" is a late 1800's movement, and, I agree, that movement is archaic. The singular "they" has been a feature of English since Chaucer and remains current; Conrad used it, as did CS Lewis.