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Regarding David Dubin's post about gender references:
You are going to have to deal with this if you are using
first person/present tense/active voice. Much of the time
you can get by with addressing the reader or user as implied
"you". However, when I need to be gender-specific,
I use s/he. Seems to be the least invasive, has
fewer keystrokes than (s)he, and in my experience is
readily understood ... at least for your typical (if there
is such a thing) English-speaking US audience.
Anyone else choosing this option?
Anne Halsey
sr tech writer, storagetek
anne_halsey -at- stortek -dot- com
