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Sat Mar 5 01:40:21 CET 2011 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/108704.html

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Westley Martínez <anikom15 at gmail.com>
> All right I have to reply to all these "singular they" remarks. Just
> because the singular they has been used for a long time doesn't make it
> right. It sounds unnatural, at least to me, and I've always been taught
> to use "he or she" which I despise. So all my life I've used the generic
> "he". Anyways, I remember reading somewhere that for Python Strunk and
> White apply, and neither Strunk nor White like singular theys.

That's how I felt 20 years ago. But since then I've come to appreciate
they as a much better alternative to either "he or she" or "he". Just
get used to it.

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)

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