[HPforGrownups] Re: British -> American "Translation"

[Nathan]

No: HPFGUIDX 10275



>--- 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
>>

And Susan replied:

>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....

Or you could use the plural sense if you have a really big ego. The Royal
'we' and all that.

Nathan