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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: "Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 18:45:29 -0800


Y'know... I can handle a singular "they". Yes, I consider it
informal and do my best to write around it, but I can handle
it. And every once in a while, I've been known to split an
infinitive for the sake of clarity.

What really upsets me is that the possessive before a gerund
is rapidly disappearing from the language and nobody (except
me) even misses it!

(now that you mention it)
-Sue Gallagher

At 03:00 PM 3/4/2003 -0500, Kirsten Zerbinis wrote:

Ah well, in the same landmark document in which the OED declared that "they" is an acceptable third person neuter pronoun, they told everyone it was okay to split the infinitive. It was an altogether strangely progressive year for the OED.


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References:
RE: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?: From: Howdy Davis
Re: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woods?: From: Kirsten Zerbinis

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