Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amdahl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!amdahl!gam From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (gam) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he Message-ID: <947@amdahl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 02:01:30 EST Article-I.D.: amdahl.947 Posted: Wed Jan 16 02:01:30 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:11:42 EST References: <1315@dciem.UUCP> <643@bunker.UUCP> <855@amdahl.UUCP> <10888@watmath.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Blue Mouse Trailer Resort, Hellmouth, CA Lines: 21 > >Despite popular belief, there is nothing wrong with using "they" with > >a singular antecedent. > You'll never edit any of *my* writing. I enjoy some of the pedantic > rules of English, and I would hope that any person with your education > and background would find their sentiments in accord. Who(m)ever they is. > -- > -IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) University of Waterloo "Pedantic" is the word! You have no idea where the rules come from, but you follow them anyway. But the point here is that the "rules" are inconsistent the real world, with literary tradition, with the best authors in the English language -- with the OED. Indeed, someone with my education and backround prefers to use *those* things to help me use the language, rather than your "rules", whereever they came from. By the way, by "find their sentiments in accord" did you mean to say "agree with"? (Ooops, not supposed to edit your writing). -- Gordon A. Moffett ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam