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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-07-21 18:05:39 +0000
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-07-22 15:26:49 +0200
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doc: Add note on gender-neutral wording.
Suggested by ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is>. * doc/contributing.texi (Submitting Patches): Add @item regarding gender-neutral wording.
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@@ -323,6 +323,12 @@ related to the hardware---e.g., use of different instruction set
extensions---or to the operating system kernel---e.g., reliance on
@code{uname} or @file{/proc} files.
+@item
+When writing documentation, please use gender-neutral wording when
+referring to people, such as
+@uref{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they, singular
+``they''@comma{} ``their''@comma{} ``them''}, and so forth.
+
@end enumerate
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