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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