[tei-council] unmarked for gender

[Martin Holmes]

Done. I've added a new section to the "Editing the Guidelines" document:

<http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/Council/Working/tcw20.xml#house-style-usage>

called "House style: notes on usage". We can use this to collect 
together snippets and preferences like this, until we reach a point 
where we create a formal style guide.

Cheers,
Martin

On 12-02-24 10:34 AM, Lou Burnard wrote:
> Martin writes in response to a recent sf ticket (3492947)
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>   >  "and the encoder" =>  "and encoders" (cf. "their" below).
>   >  This is a use of "their" for a 3rd-person singular unmarked for gender
>   >  (instead of "his/her", which is felt to be ungainly). I think this is
>   >  now probably acceptable in formal written English.
>
> Maybe someone would like to record in our stylistic guidelines that this
> usage is not just "probably acceptable" but actually our preferred
> practice? Certainly it's mine!
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Martin Holmes
University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre
(mholmes at uvic.ca)