OED updates some senses of they, their. Commentary on how singular use of they has been used to conceal identity.
Reading: OED cites Language Log again: they
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Tag Archives: gender
bookmarks for May 28th, 2013 through June 5th, 2013
- How I manage to keep active in so many networks – PhD candidate Cristina Costa on living in her PLN. – (dl dh academia2.0 ple fyw social_learning )
- Your WYSIWYG Editor sucks – outlines the concerns of developers, which is a good insight into how and what they think. includes that pesky gender problem: the smes are gendered as women, getting a little too creative for the developers and either slow in learning or just plain obstinate. interesting how the typist is still gendered and the solutions to them is still administrative. – (webdesign sme gender cms )