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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:Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- pinnaclewest -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:29:35 -0700
Maggie Secara sez:
<<It doesn't matter if it's fiction or non. Grammar is
grammar, isn't it? ... >>
To which John Posada replies:
<<
Put Hemingway, Joyce, Clancy, and cumming's in the same room, lock the door,
and pose that.
BTW...no shotguns allowed.>>
Nah, it's not the writers that need to ditch this out. It's the prescriptionists vs. the linguists.
Oh, the copyeditor and the language maven can be friends
Oh, the prescriptionist and the linguist can be friends
one type likes to dot the "i"
the other one just asks us why
but that's no reason why they can't be friends...
That's my Friday contribution.
Rose A. Wilcox
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Tranz1 QA/Documentation
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Rose -dot- Wilcox -at- PinnacleWest -dot- com
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