-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 August 2004 04:48, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 09:02:05PM +0200, Tobias Toedter wrote: > > First of all, thank you for this effort. However, English is not my > > first language, that's why I wonder if it's common to use "they", > > "them", and "their" when referring to a single person. > > It's a reasonably common workaround for the lack of a real > non-gender-specific third-person singular pronoun in English, yes, and > has been in use as such for centuries. > > There are occasional debates about its grammatical correctness, but I > believe that it sounds natural to most native speakers.
Alright, thanks for clearing this up. > > At least in German this would be highly unusual (to say the least; I'd > > rather consider this a mistake). > > I'd expect translators to handle it in whatever way is appropriate in > their language. Sure. I guess we'll have to discuss this on -l10n-german, though. Cheers, - -- Tobias AMAZING BUT TRUE... If you took all the veins from your body and laid them together end to end, you'd die. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBEnYUCqqEJ0Fs8twRAkjiAKCwQPWleAm1kQVEK9uB/ZAwx1Z3agCeN37H H1e1gPTyaP5u1hIVIZ+fQjY= =JaiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----