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.