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I don't know about you, but I always refer to administrators as "it".
Joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Sturgeon [mailto:prsturgeon -at- yahoo -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:59 AM
To: Geoff Hart; TECHWR-L; Joe Malin
Subject: Re: Singular versus Plural
Another benefit to getting everything plural is that references to
people--administrators, users, operators--never have to confront the
he/she, him/her thing.
----- Original Message ----
From: Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>; Joe Malin <jmalin -at- tuvox -dot- com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 2:31:28 PM
Subject: Singular versus Plural
If you want to be a little more consistent, change the heading to
"Creating topics" to match the index.
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