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At 11:16 PM 9/17/97 -0800, you wrote:
[snip]
>>While I'll be enjoying the Folson Street Fair with a friend, neither one of
>>use will immerse ourselves in the whole "master/slave" thing there. To
>>each his/her own....
>
>Don't you mean "his/her/its"? <running and ducking for cover!>
>
>
> Your friend and mine,
> Matt
Hm. For the sake of accuracy, and at the risk of deviating from the strict
list topics (although it could come under the umbrella of appropriate word
use), perhaps I should have been all-encompassing:
his/her/indeterminate/in-transition.
Makes me thing it's be easier to muddy the pronoun waters--as has been done
here before--and just said "To each their own...."
--
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