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Singular They in Technical English

Guidelines for Singular They in Technical English

by 0xabad1dea, December 2014

This document is an RFC of sorts for increasing the adoption rate of Singular They in technical English. This is not an ultimatum; this is not shaming anyone who has done otherwise; and this is definitely not applicable to any other language.

What is Singular They?

# ~/.gitconfig from @boblet
# initially based on http://rails.wincent.com/wiki/Git_quickstart
[core]
excludesfile = /Users/oli/.gitignore
legacyheaders = false # >git 1.5
quotepath = false
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/136178/git-diff-handling-long-lines
pager = less -r
# if ↑ doesn’t work, try: pager = less -+$LESS -FRX