• Celestus@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    I think it’s pretty stupid of the developer to have that attitude. I think it’s equally as stupid to advocate against using a piece of software because of that, though

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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.