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jiggy2011
on Nov 30, 2013
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To my friends in the Node community
There's a discussion on Stack exchange here:
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30455/is-using-he...
But I would still class the late 1800s as relatively "historical" compared with tech documentation.
tptacek
on Nov 30, 2013
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You misread me. The effort to eradicate singular "they" is a late 1800's movement, and, I agree, that movement is archaic. The singular "they" has been a feature of English since Chaucer and remains current; Conrad used it, as did CS Lewis.
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But I would still class the late 1800s as relatively "historical" compared with tech documentation.