I mean the second hunk, the s/his/per/ in lines 380 and 382 of
doc/maintain.texi.
Apologies if it's a kind of English that I don't understand.
Ah. It's not a mistake, or rather, one might say, it's an intentional
mistake. rms explains in the Preface node, e.g.,
http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Preface.html
Personally I think these novel pronounds are a bad idea; even as a
native English speaker, I find myself confused by them. For non-native
speakers, I expect it's worse. It would not be hard to rewrite the
document to be gender-neutral in other ways. However, I proposed doing
this to rms, and he rejected the idea. So it goes sometimes.
Cheers,
karl
