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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: The nature of wizards
Message-ID: <2719D550.51BE@tct.uucp>
Date: 15 Oct 90 15:27:12 GMT
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According to dave@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (David Messer):
>"To avoid confusing the reader by using a gender-specific pronoun where
>proper English usage is to use a gender-unspecified pronoun, namely 'he.'"

Did I use "proper English"?  Strictly speaking, I did not.

Someday, though -- perhaps due to people like myself who are willing
to be "confusing" -- proper English usage may change to the optional
use of "she" or "he" according to the whim of the writer.

Such change won't happen on its own.  A few must be first...
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
    "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed
         by that evil Chip Salzenberg."   -- John F. Haugh II