[systemd-devel] [systemd-commits] 2 commits - man/pam_systemd.xml src/shared

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 24.10.14 03:19, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:15:59PM -0700, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >     man: in pam_systemd, it must be "his" (or "her"), not their
> 
> Why? "Their" is gramatically correct, and sidesteps specyfing the gender.
> 
> http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/192/is-it-correct-to-use-their-instead-of-his-or-her

It's misleading since it's still primarily associated with plural. And
the sentence contains a plural form, which means it can be understood
incorrectly.

Anyway, I now changed the page to always repeat "the user" again, instead
of any pronoun.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat