Timeline for Co-authors request that others do not use "he" as a pronoun - is this reasonable?
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| Feb 1, 2017 at 9:15 | comment | added | michaeljt | I am surprised that no comment that I saw suggested the common practice of randomly switching between "she" and "he". I found it jarring the first time I saw it used, but now rather like it. And of course it is interesting (perhaps even healthy) when for example "she" is used in a context which is usually male. | |
| Jan 29, 2017 at 22:05 | comment | added | lynn | I agree “he or she” is clumsy, and it’s also wrong: not everyone uses “he” or “she” pronouns. “They” all the way! | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 21:26 | comment | added | user0721090601 | @PatriciaShanahan oops, I'm bad with dates. But it also appeared in Chaucer, which is definitely pre-Shakespeare unless I'm really really bad with dates haha | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 20:47 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | @guifa "even before" what? I'm confused. The Comedy of Errors was published several years before the start of work on the King James Bible. | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 15:25 | comment | added | user0721090601 | It was being used even before then. The King James Bible has some uses of it. Singular they is in a renaissance, and those in their twenties will read it perfectly naturally and probably a good bit of those of us in our thirties do too. It's not the only solution, of course, but it's the simplest, IMO. | |
| Jan 28, 2017 at 14:41 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | +1 I stated my own arguments in favor of "they" etc. in stackoverflow meta | |
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| Jan 28, 2017 at 13:34 | history | answered | owjburnham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |