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Ok, even though I think the singular they is awkward, I can understand the fight for removing gendered pronouns. However, something I've been wondering for a w

• fhars 13y ago
  Badly. I've always envied english for its almost complete lack of grammatical gender.
• kika 13y ago
  Miserably if you apply the same rules. But I can't imagine a Russian female software developer being offended by Russian "he" in the documentation. Every occupation has a gender too and 'software developer' is 'male', though you can produce the female gender from this word, but in looks very awkward in the text - if you use 'femalized' words it means you actually make a point. We also have 'neutral' gender (like "it" in English), but you usually can't use it instead of male or female unless you're writing satire :-) There're even different female forms for 'male' occupations depending on whether the female is the professional or wife of the professional. So all the documentation I can think of uses the 'default' gender which is usually male. And I'm yet to see someone offended by that, male or female.