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Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Thu, 29 April 2021 23:56 UTC

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On 4/29/2021 3:41 PM, Dan Harkins wrote:

> On 4/29/21 3:38 PM, Jim Fenton wrote:
>> The NIST document mentioned earlier, in Section 4.3 discusses 
>> guidance in the Chicago Manual of Style Sections 5.251-5.260. NIST 
>> notes that CMOS does not endorse use of the singular “they”, and note 
>> that as a conflict with their guidance.
>
>   Good! English has a perfectly valid gender-neutral 3rd person 
> singular: it.

Alternately, if people don't want to use "they" as a singular pronoun 
and also don't want to designate persons as objects, they can always 
rearrange their phrase and use the plural tense. If that's the sole 
point of contention, it is rather easily solved...

-- Christian Huitema

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