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