[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report (Seriously OT now!)

[John Winters]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 14:18, Dylan wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 November 2002 14:00, John Winters wrote:
[snip]
> > As a parallel, the language seems to be reaching the point where "they"
> > is acceptable as a singular pronoun for an individual of unknown sex.
> > OTOH, it will still grate with some people and can usually be avoided
> > tidily simply by re-arranging the sentence.
> 
> Surely you'd agree that use of they as singular is preferable to the earlier 
> (and still remaining) he or she circumlocutions, or even worse (s)he?

Of those two I'm not sure which is worse.  Both will annoy someone.  I
was advocating avoiding the problem by not putting yourself in the
position of having to use either.

John

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