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Q&A How I should handle gender-neutral pronouns in technical writing?

I will cheerfully use "singular they" if that is a particular person's pronoun, but not as a lazy substitute for "he/she." Rewrite the sentence, either as plural or as second-person. 1) When us...

posted 4y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Lauren Ipsum‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Lauren Ipsum‭ · 2020-01-13T11:12:33Z (about 4 years ago)
  • I will cheerfully use *singular they* if that is a particular person's pronoun, but not as a lazy substitute for "he/she."
  • Rewrite the sentence, either as plural or as second-person.
  • >1) When **users request** for their visit and order to be registered in their account, a checkin is created at POS.
  • >2) When **you request** for **your** visit and order to be registered in **your** account, a checkin is created at POS.
  • I will cheerfully use "singular they" if that is a particular person's pronoun, but not as a lazy substitute for "he/she."
  • Rewrite the sentence, either as plural or as second-person.
  • >1) When **users request** for their visit and order to be registered in their account, a checkin is created at POS.
  • >2) When **you request** for **your** visit and order to be registered in **your** account, a checkin is created at POS.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Lauren Ipsum‭ · 2020-01-13T11:12:12Z (about 4 years ago)
I will cheerfully use *singular they* if that is a particular person's pronoun, but not as a lazy substitute for "he/she." 

Rewrite the sentence, either as plural or as second-person.

>1) When **users request** for their visit and order to be registered in their account, a checkin is created at POS.

>2) When **you request** for **your** visit and order to be registered in **your** account, a checkin is created at POS.