gender-specific pronouns

Subject: gender-specific pronouns
From: RWS <rshade -at- FAST -dot- NET>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:55:06 -0400

A fellow tech-writer spake...


>Another way to "skirt" the issue is to avoid using 3rd person pronouns
>altogether.

Isn't "it" a 3rd person pronoun? Is "it" gender specific?


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