At 08:59 PM 12/10/98 -0500, Roger Fajman wrote:
>I and a number of other people like to use "they" instead of "he" or
>"she" when the gender is not known.  I know it's not gramatically
>correct, but it will become accepted eventually if enough people use
>the word that way.  It has the advantage of already being the plural
>form.  The same thing can be done with "their" in place of "his" or
>"hers".

Ah, well......just two more steps to the further bastardization of the
language.....and good luck to the future English teachers who try to teach
agreement....

cheers

dan

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