[Python-Dev] Vagaries of "their" in English (was Re: Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream)

[Westley Martínez]

On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 11:18 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Westley Martínez wrote:
> 
> > I believe singular they should not be used in formal writing. So what if
> > you use it in an email?
> 
> If you, personally, dislike it, then don't use it. But if you (generic 
> you) say that it is grammatically incorrect to do so, then you are 
> simply *wrong*. Some things are a matter of taste and individual 
> opinion, but the validity of singular-they is not one of them.
> 
> And if you (generic you) insist that a grammatical feature which goes 
> back to Chaucer in written English, most likely a thousand years in 
> spoken English, and that is used by the King James Bible, is politically 
> correct zealotry created by feminists, well, that's just laughable.
> 
> This is off-topic and we've put enough noise on the dev list about this. 
> If anyone wishes to continue a serious, good-faith discussion, I'm happy 
> to talk off-list.

For the record, I never said anything about politically correct
zealotry.