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Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?
Subject:Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods? From:Paul DuBois <paul -at- kitebird -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:22:30 -0600
But the article points out that their-as-singular does not apply
in situations with a strongly-individualized single person.
The example that started this thread seems an instance of that.
>
> Maggie Secara
> ~Lege, lege, aliquid haerebit
>
> --- Dan Glovier <dglovier -at- edline -dot- com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Is anyone a fan of using "they" as the gender
> > neutral singular pronoun
> > of choice? For example:
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