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RE: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woo ds?
Subject:RE: Gender neutral - any new developments in your neck of the woo ds? From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Mar 2003 12:27:02 -0500
> I use it quite a bit, to avoid exactly the
> sort of "I said; it said" arguments that
> we're seeing here. But, then, I grew up reading
> Agatha Christie, Thomas Hardy and the
> Brontes. Like the Shakespearean "they",
> "one" feels and sounds normal to me.
But, except for your diary, your blog, and your GANTGMYR* hidden away in
your bottom desk drawer, you aren't writing for you...you are writing for
the reader and if I was the reader, I'd think "Huh?
The problem I have with writing that isn't modern conversational is that as
I'm reading a procedure, I'm building a visual sequence in my head. It is
from that sequence that I perform the procedure, not from the written
material (I may refer back if I come to an impasse, but other than that....
Using language that makes me do a mental hiccup is that the picture is
erased and I need to backtrack.
*GANTGMYR - Great American Novel That is Going to Make You Rich
John Posada
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