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voidUpdate 7 months ago

As I understand it, generally it prefers being referred to in the third person with inanimate it/its pronouns, including by itself, but in a professional setting they and she can be acceptable. And to clarify, I'm not trying to "call it out" on its mistake or something, I'm just trying to understand

KronisLV 7 months ago | parent | next [-]

Your curiosity is welcome, don't heed the sibling commenter: they essentially seem to be acting like a troll, most of their comments are flagged.

Then again, I don't have an answer here, just wanted to offset the negativity. Nice blog post though, some of the other comments are pretty cool, especially the mentions of the "clumsy" tool.

voidUpdate 7 months ago | parent [-]

Yeah, I ended up asking some of my LGBT friends and we had a bit of a discussion about the circumstances of using "it" and how it can feel uncomfortable sometimes

decremental 7 months ago | parent | prev [-]

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