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Subject:Re: His/Her v. Their From:Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:Becca <becca -at- di -dot- org> Date:Fri, 26 Oct 2012 08:40:36 -0700
I'd go with "their" IF - and this is a really big iif - you can frame the
entire statement as plural, i.e., "users enter their IDs." If you can't
avoid making it singular, I'd use his/her, i.e., "the user enters his/her
ID."
Seeing things like "the user enters their ID" over and over again gives me
this annoying itch to mark down someone's performance appraisal.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> Some documents I'm editing of necessity give procedures in third person
> rather than the assumed (you) second person. There's no way around this.
>
> In the document I'm editing, they use His/Her. My inclination is to use
> "their" - comments?
>
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