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From: js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: 'they' as third person singular indefinate sex pronoun
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:44:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:44:09 1985
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    I've been following the discussion here about the use of 'they' instead
of 'he' as a third person singular indefinate sex pronoun, and as I was 
writing an article recently, I needed just such a pronoun.  I thought:
"What the heck, let's try out this 'they' word."; and did.  The results
were less than satisfying.  This is the phrase I ended up with:
   " is anonymous;  if they finds out where I live, will
they come bomb my house?"

    Now it may be that I've used this word inappropriately somehow, (though
it seems to be right to me) but if not, then I guess I'll have to agree with
the people who said that it looks and sounds very clumsy.
-- 
Jeff Sonntag
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    "Things always seem darkest just before they get totally black."