re: you or he/it

["Sean Hower" <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>]

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Anonymous Poster asked about using you.
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I didn't finish reading all of the replies--there's a lot of them--so if 
my solution has already been brought up, forgive. But in all the ones 
that I have read, no one has suggested that you could simply adopt a 
style that uses neither you nor the user. That would eliminate this 
entire discussion. For example:

You can use the color picker to set the background of your pages.

can be rewritten as

Use the color picker to set the background color for pages.

Don't get me wrong, I am a big advocate of you, but a former coworker 
really hated its use and so I experimented with dropping it. It really 
does make for better, clear, concise writing. Now, there may be a few 
occassion where you have to use you, but I'm willing to bet that you 
could slip those in without anyone noticing.

Just a thought.


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