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[Python-Dev] Support the /usr/bin/python2 symlink upstream

Isaac Morland ijmorlan at uwaterloo.ca
Fri Mar 4 16:28:16 CET 2011 
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, R. David Murray wrote:

>>> Nit pick: Change "he" to "they" to be gender neutral.
>>
>> Nit pick: Change "they" to "he" to be grammatically correct. If we
>> really have to be gender neutral, change "he" to "he or she".
>
> English is evolving.  I vote for "they".

Sorry, can't resist a further nitpick:  English has not been evolving in 
this particular case, in the sense that "they" has been used as a singular 
since before English was English:

http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/singular-they-and-the-many-reasons-why-its-correct/

Also interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they

Attention "he or she"ists:  Singular "they" won before any of us was born. 
You may want to divert your energies to a more worthy cause, such as 
ensuring proper use of "whom".

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