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  1. Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!pipex!demon!gtoal
  3. From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
  4. Subject: Re: A gender neutral pronoun
  5. Message-ID: <BzyGGo.Gos@demon.co.uk>
  6. Sender: news@demon.co.uk
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: pizzabox.demon.co.uk
  8. Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
  9. References: <37851@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> <724649705@majors4.cs.duke.edu> <38043@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>
  10. Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 05:55:35 GMT
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  12.  
  13. In article <38043@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> djohns@elm.circa.ufl.edu (David A. Johns) writes:
  14. :        I'll go out with anyone as long as they don't smoke.
  15. :
  16. :I've definitely heard examples like this second sentence in contexts
  17. :where I was fairly sure the speaker wasn't flaunting __ bisexuality.
  18.  
  19. Hmmm... I use 'they' occasionally and fairly sparingly, and the sentence
  20. above is one of the few contexts I *would* use it for the reason you
  21. suggested :-)
  22.  
  23. G
  24. (Actually there are other reasons I won't go out with just anyone, even
  25. if they don't smoke... religion, pseudo-science, extreme politics,
  26. uncritical language pedantry... :-) )
  27.