From: utzoo!laura Newsgroups: net.followup Title: signing articles (his/her) Article-I.D.: utzoo.2360 Posted: Tue Aug 10 17:09:28 1982 Received: Tue Aug 10 17:09:28 1982 References: ucbarpa.1849 I find 'his/her' annoying. I find the incorrect use of 'they' even more annoying, probably because I often catch myself using that abomination. However, the single commonly used english error which bothers me the most, is 'hopefully', which is an ADVERB and does not mean 'I hope'. I catch myself using it, though... I vote we go back to the third person general pronoun, 'he' and its related forms 'his' and 'him' (Middle English scholars involved in the debate over whether there is any relationship between the words 'he', 'him' and 'his', please excuse me), and tell those people who find in such usage the 'proof' of sexist attitudes that they are guilty of an akin sin -- judging people without sufficient information. Further discussion should move to net.nlang, where there was some discussion on 'chairperson' recently. Laura Creighton decvax!utzoo!laura