Re: Escaping gender usage (was RE: Pet Peeves)

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

This is probably the best suggestion of all.

(But how does the hard drive feel about it? They may
prefer to be known as "fixed-disk storage"..."hard
drive" has unseemly implications.)

--- Suzette Leeming <suzette -dot- leeming -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> I try to avoid using "you" (too informal) or "user"
> (too impersonal).
> 
> I would change the sentence structure to something
> like this:
> 
> "When a hard drive is formatted, all of the data on
> it is lost."
> 
> I avoid all gender issues this way.





 
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