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Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?

Subject: Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?
From: Kirsten Zerbinis <salmonzerbinis -at- rogers -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 15:00:27 -0500


Ah well, in the same landmark document in which the OED declared that "they" is an acceptable third person neuter pronoun, they told everyone it was okay to split the infinitive. It was an altogether strangely progressive year for the OED.

Kirsten Zerbinis
Grammar Geek


On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 02:06 PM, Howdy Davis wrote:


When the third person is unavoidable it's HE for me!

Rationale:
I'd rather come across as a grammatically-correct chauvinistic pig to a
few than be perceived as someone with an irrelevant agenda to the
majority of my audience who probably couldn't care less anyway because
all they're trying to do is start the damn machine.

Just don't get me started on split infinitives.

Hmmph,


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