• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    I think he misinterpreted it as a complaint made on political grounds, when it seems to have been made on the grounds of perfectionism.

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      4 months ago

      Not really perfectionism just grammar

      I think the fact that using a neuter pronoun is so charged that we can’t even speak or write our language correctly is insane.

      I’ve written thousands of technical documents, if you are referring to a generic operator / user / whatever the correct term to use is “they.” That’s how you say “the person that I’m referring to that I don’t know anything about”

      There was a brief madness in the 90s when fucking morons used “he/she” for absolutely no reason.