RE: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?

["Sean Brierley" <sbri -at- haestad -dot- com>]

I use "they" as a gender-neutral singular. I think using "she" is the
worst choice because it is distracting--even for female members of my
audience. Remind me again why we need gender-neutral language? I wonder
how the French are handling the 21st century in this regard, has there,
for example, been a move to neuter those nouns that folks don't want
associated with their particular gender . . . maybe women don't like the
fact that chance is feminine, for example?

Cheers,

Sean

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Sean Brierley
Software Documentation Specialist
Haestad Methods 
http://www.haestad.com 
203-805-0572 (voice) 
203-597-1488 (fax)
 


-----Original Message-----
From: dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com [mailto:dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com] 

dmbrown -at- brown-inc -dot- com SHOULD'VE written:
>
> If I can't recast the sentence to avoid needing a
> THIRD-PERSON singular pronoun, I just use "she."
 
Ever have one of those days?

<sigh> 

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