Timeline for English: gender neutral strings for named people in programs?
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| Jul 17, 2013 at 13:09 | comment | added | Alex Feinman | @ekapros Mmm, we're running into the variations between USA English vs. UK English. "Liverpool FC has..." is typical in USA English, but the UK would say "Liverpool FC have...". | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 17:22 | comment | added | ekapros | @AlexFeinman Sure, that would work really well if the account was always for a person, not a bad idea at all. However, if it is for an organisation you would have to use "OrgX have…" (some say "has" also for orgs but, hey!, universal design!), and in the question the OP mentions an example with an organisation (Liverpool FC) so I assumed it's not always an individual associated with the account. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 17:11 | comment | added | Alex Feinman | You probably don't need the awkward "User 'Catherine' has..." construction, just go with "Catherine has..." | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 10:18 | vote | accept | TV's Frank | ||
| Jul 16, 2013 at 10:02 | comment | added | TV's Frank | And thanks for pointing out that you can avoid pronouns altogether here - I'm not a native english speaker in case that wasn't blatantly obvious. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 9:57 | comment | added | TV's Frank | Cool! My specific issue deals with notifying about other users. The "User '...'" version looks nice. | |
| Jul 16, 2013 at 9:37 | history | answered | ekapros | CC BY-SA 3.0 |