From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!rabbit!jj
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: IT
Article-I.D.: rabbit.612
Posted: Sat Jul 17 23:35:35 1982
Received: Sun Jul 18 05:01:04 1982
References: floyd.348 mhb5c.1004

Well, yes.   I was taught that one always used the male pronoun in
the indefinite reference.  I was also taught that one never said:
"Do you know" in written English, one said: "Does one know?"

Furthermore, one of my English teacher's favorite statements, used often
and loudly, was "A guy is a ROPE!  Are you a rope?"

Of course, it was the same school system that taught me that
the word "man" comes from the latin.  We, or at least all who read this
newsgroup, know better than THAT now.