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Subject: Re: Gender-specific responses to s/he
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> Wonderful.  So no matter how I write, I will be discriminating
> against *somebody*, in that what I write will be harder for females
> to grasp if I use generic terms, and harder for males to grasp if
> I use he/she.
> 
> Gary Samuelson
> ittvax!bunker!garys

Not really.  The study overlooked experimenting with "they", so we
don't know what the subjective effect of that usage is.

Despite popular belief, there is nothing wrong with using "they" with
a singular antecedent.

("he/she" "s/he" and "he or she" sound clumsy to me).
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,sun}!amdahl!gam

"Everything you know is wrong"