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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: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:02:27 -0800


Anita Legsdin wrote:

I always try to avoid using mismatched subject and pronoun.


This discussion makes me wonder: when English lost the second person plural in the 17th century, were there people who said that using "you" for a plural subject was a mismatched subject and pronoun? ;-)

Probably not, because our grammar neurosis hadn't set in yet. Still, the language - and the culture - survived that change without too much trauma. Just like "you," "they" is becoming the pronoun for both singular AND plural.

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