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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by 6502nerdface on Monday April 18, 2022 @12:41PM (#31073095)
He/she means the Soviet astronomers called themselves cosmonomers. Like astronauts and cosmonauts, har har.
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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by itsyaboi on Monday April 18, 2022 @07:41PM (#31078143)
I don't think that's an actual word. Perhaps a mistranslation?

https://yandex.ru/search/?text=%22%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BC%D...

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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by MisterTea on Monday April 18, 2022 @01:32PM (#31073869)
> He/she

Use "they" when you do not know the subjects gender/sex/whatever. Much cleaner to look at and read.

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Re:The 1936-1937 Purge of Soviet Astronomers (1991) by 6502nerdface on Friday April 22, 2022 @04:21PM (#31127543)
I considered "they" but worried that it could be parsed as coreferential with matrix12's "they," so I used he/she which, because it is singular, refers unambiguously to the previous speaker, matrix12 himself/herself.
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