Description: When referring to a person using they/them pronouns, themself is the proper term, not themselves, which reffers to multiple people and isn't grammatically correct in that context. However, libreoffice doesn't seem to recognize this and will automatically correct it no matter where it's used, making it incredibly frustrating to type something that I had no problem typing before. Steps to Reproduce: Just type themself and press space after Actual Results: it automatically corrected to themselves no matter how hard I tried to make it not Expected Results: It should've kept it as themself and not automatically corrected it, especially since it's in my personal dictionary Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 24.2.5.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: bffef4ea93e59bebbeaf7f431bb02b1a39ee8a59 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 195915 [details] Video showing bad effect REPRODUCIBLE with Installation of Version: 24.2.3.2 (X86_64) Build ID: 433d9c2ded56988e8a90e6b2e771ee4e6a5ab2ba CPU threads: 12; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE; Theme: Element Calc: threaded – normal User Profile created from 7.6 New Document with Text language en_US STR: 0. Open new document with disabled Auto Correct and document language = en_US, Enabled Auto Spell Checker 1. Type "Themself is wrong" » red curled underline for Themself as expected 2. Add "Themself" to Dict. » red curled underline for Themself vanishes as expected 3. go on typing and type "themself" with tailing blank » expected: "themself" will be kept. actual: Autocorrect changes "themself" to "themselves"
@Reporter: I doubt that this is a real Bug. You can find a solution for your problem at <https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/themself-as-a-word-yes-this-is-a-word/100005/2> I tried that proceeding – it works.
https://cmosshoptalk.com/2017/04/03/chicago-style-for-the-singular-they/ "CMOS [Chicago Manual of Style] 17 will state that themself (like yourself) may be used to signal the singular antecedent (though some people will prefer themselves)."
gemcat: can you check it: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/173246 Click Expand all in the file list to see the diff.
Ilmari Lauhakangas committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/26cc060303b98a64daf2c71457811241dc4a0b45 tdf#162524 Remove themself from autocorrect lists It will be available in 25.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Ilmari Lauhakangas committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-24-8": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/10f5e3d255c094bb34155f6354b93e93289e43a0 tdf#162524 Remove themself from autocorrect lists It will be available in 24.8.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.