Re: More gender neutrality

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

AmyD -at- osas -dot- com wrote:

>
>"One brings his lunch to school." 

One brings lunch to school.

Or, likewise, "Everyone brings his books
>to class." 

Everyone brings books to class.

Or, "One must enter his password to log in and access the main
>screen."

One must enter a password to ...


>
>But it might be fun for a while...

Yeah, perhaps. But I'm going to play with the singular use of _they_ and _their_ for a while. I've been doing it for a couple of months and nobody has said boo about it. I use it sparingly, of course, and only when anything else would be wordier or more awkward. Mostly I use second person. If third person is necessary, I generally recast the sentence to use plural subject and verb. But once in a while a singular user has to look up their own password ;-)

Dick


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