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<p>How many of "these" are there to change? Not that the work
itself will be massive, but putting a 'they' in the middle of a
sentence does not make it easy to translate intuitively, I would
think. If it's a consideration (it is for non-English users, at
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/19/2017 01:16 PM, Jonathan Druart
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<div>The next step would be to provide a check to our QA tests
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I am pretty sure they will not be caught manually by QAers.<br>
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style="font-family:georgia,serif">English has a
singular "they". It doesn't suggest androgyny,
either, from the definitions I've seen. For
instance, Oxford English Dictionary:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">2.
In anaphoric reference to a singular noun or
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style="font-family:georgia,serif">The first usage
example OED provides is from 1375. I don't think
replacing "he" with "she" addresses the problem,
it's still assuming a default gender. It's not too
much tricker to search code for he/him & replace
with they/them but that's also just an
implementation issue, not a policy one.<br>
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It sounds like people are otherwise supportive but
I'm not sure what the next step should be.</div>
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2017-04-18 08:25 PM, Eric Phetteplace wrote:<br>
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Hi list,<br>
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I opened bug<br>
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Before*:*<br>
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"Kid growing and become a juvenile, he should
pay "<br>
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"Kid growing and become a juvenile, they should
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Political correctness has never been my strong
point (although I try to understand it), but I'm
proficient in grammatical rigour. [1]<br>
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"Kid" is a singular noun, "a" is a singular
article -- "they" is a plural pronoun. Perhaps
replace "they" with "[s]he"? or "Kids growing and
becoming juveniles, they should pay"?<br>
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From a code maintenance p.o.v., it's easier to
find and replace 'he' with '[s]he' if really this
becomes a priority for Koha.<br>
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Best -- Paul<br>
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[1] I am aware of the so-called "singular third
person epicene 'they'", but academically object to
it -- it often suggests androgyny rather than
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