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- From: key@mcnc.org (Kathy E. Yount)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: gender pronouns
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.142139.7425@mcnc.org>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 14:21:39 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: MCNC Center for Microelectronics, RTP, NC
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- pepke@scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
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- >Which of the following two statements is correct?
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- >A) If a person wishes to discuss gender-neutral pronouns, he should do it
- >somewhere other than sci.skeptic.
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- >B) If a person wishes to discuss gender-neutral pronouns, they should do it
- >somewhere other than sci.skeptic.
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- Neither unless in A) you know the person is a male.
- B) is incorrect because you have changed from singular
- (a person) to plural (they)
- Why not just avoid the gender-neutral pronoun when possible? i.e.
- The subject of gender-neutral pronouns should not be discussed in
- the sci.skeptic newsgroup.
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