: Re: What's the modern way to handle gender in tech writing? Back in my day, I was taught to use masculine pronouns. The user chooses a password, and then he types it in the text box.

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Just use singular "they". People who bleat on about it being somehow gramatically incorrect need to educate themselves, either by doing a modicum of research, or just looking up the word in a dictionay.
@spence one of the problems I've encountered in the UK is that many people have been mis-educated to be indoctrinated with this rubbish that

"they" is only plural
it's OK to use gender exclusive language

and it's hard to turn around 12 years of defective schooling.

I note the irony in Lauren Ipsum's comment above "just because people have been doing it wrong for four hundred years doesn't make it right" Sorry old bean, grammar and syntax of language evolve over time; since "they" has been used as a singular pronoun over hundreds of years, then it has become part of our language and, ipso facto, correct.

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