[Osmf-talk] Gender Neutral Language in the AoA Update

[Claire Halleux]

Agreed.

By the way, interesting discover is this "singular they", I didn't it could
be used that way.


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2013/3/7 Mikel Maron <mikel_maron at yahoo.com>

> I think "they" is less unwieldy, but I wonder if there's some legal
> distinction that our lawyer would be aware of between "he,she,it" and
> "they".
>
> Perhaps we can say to the lawyer "we want gender neutral language, 'they'
> would be preferable if possible in legal nomenclature, otherwise 'he, she,
> or it"
>
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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> *From:* Liz Barry <ebarry at gmail.com>
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> *Sent:* Thursday, March 7, 2013 5:30 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Osmf-talk] Gender Neutral Language in the AoA Update
>
> +1
>
> no opinion on "he, she, it" vs. singular "they"
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>
> On 07/03/13 22:15, Kate Chapman wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I would like to propose that the AoA be updated to use gender neutral
> language in the update.
>
> Honestly I don't feel that just putting the phrase at the top "Words
> importing the masculine gender only shall include the feminine
> gender;" is very inclusive.
>
>
> Agreed.
>
>
>  Changing things to say "he or she" would
> not be impossible or if we wanted to cover all bases "he, she, or it."
>
>
> I propose singular they.
>
> - Rob.
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