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Special Pleading reversion

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Hi! You recently reverted my edit on Special Pleading. The sentence in question alternated between "s/he" and "he" referring to the same person. I changed it to "she" for the whole example, in order to fix the inconsistency and also because "s/he" is ungrammatical. But I'm new here, and "s/he" may be RationalWiki style (though I'm not sure I've seen it in other articles.) Even so, the example sentence should use the same pronoun throughout. Mind discussing on the Special pleading talk page?

JoeOnSunset (talk)02:23, 12 February 2013

Personally, I hate s/he as much as I hate Y/you and W/we notation. English does have non-gendered pronouns in the form of "they" and "their".

Scarlet A.pngmoral12:45, 12 February 2013

What ADK said.

TyCarnival time.20:45, 12 February 2013

Friendly.

JoeOnSunset (talk)17:17, 13 February 2013

PeterL changed it to "their", which is probably for the best.

Scarlet A.pngd hominem17:03, 14 February 2013
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