British -> American "Translation"
Susan McGee
Schlobin at aol.com
Tue Jan 23 05:33:41 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 10245
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, John Walton <john at w...> wrote:
>
> You see this problem also when people unwilling to use
the "he/him/his"
> pronouns as a generic unspecified pronoun use "they/them/their"
instead:
>
> "If any student has a problem with this, he (they) should present
his
> (their) case to the Assistant Dean."
>
> It's clearly grammatically wrong, yet it's used everyday. Hay, whoo
kneads
> grammar?
>
> --John
>
Uh, John...If any student has a problem with this, s/he should
present her/his case to the Assistant Dean..is correct, don't you
think?
He stopped including she a while back....
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