On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 2:49 PM Léa Gris <lea.g...@noiraude.net> wrote:
> Either you're acting in bad faith, or you're so confused by your > gender-neutral delusion that you don't remember that in normal people's > grammar, "they" is a plural pronoun. > Argh, no, that's just an example of the fact that I can't read. Sorry. I do agree, it would be useful if English did have separate singular pronouns, both for "you" and "they". But since it doesn't, we have to work with what we have. For the second person, there's of course "thou", but for some reason, I've never heard anyone suggest using that in practice. I do wonder, though, what the gender-neutral delusion here would be? That there exist women who use computers and Unix-like systems, and not just men? Even I know, in real life, some female Linux users, and while I haven't asked about shells, I expect they might use Bash at least to some extent. So I don't think it's unrealistic to accept the fact that not all users of Bash might be "he". That may of course have been different 30 years ago, but then, the times do change.
