On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 01:50:50AM -0800, Vitaly Burovoy wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:13:32AM +0300, Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> >
> >> Some people don't understand all these issues with she/he, for example,
> >> we
> >> in Russia are not really concern about this.
> >
> > Russian offers a "Mr.Bartunov" and a "Mrs.Bartunova". Am I mistaken ?
> >
> > Karsten Hilbert
>
> Yes, but I guess Oleg meant pronouns in documents.
> In situations like 'When the user has to do something, firstly _he_
> must do something else'.
> In Russian pronouns have their own "gender" not necessarily connected
> to a gender of real user who is reading the doc and in most cases such
> pronouns are "masculine", that's why we don't concern to replace "he"
> to "he/she" or somewhat else.
I understand. Thank you for the explanation.
Karsten Hilbert
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