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From: brat@gatech.UUCP (Steven Goldberg)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Replacement for he/she
Message-ID: <3800@gatech.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 15:41:16 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 15:41:16 1984
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Using "they" is a bad idea, although it's a widely used word in spoken American
English, but it confounds the idea of singular with plural - something we'd
always like to get away from doing.  It seems people have a hard enough time
keeping their subjects agreeing with their verbs.  I vote for 'he' (the current
rule for this case), or 'one', which is probably best, if sexism is to be
totally eliminated(?)....

								Steven

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