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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: ``They'' vs. ``one'' vs. nothing
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 21:42:45 EST
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> Is it not
> more "natural" to use a pronoun already in wide usage, and with which
> most people are at least somewhat familiar, than to force this square
> peg of a singular 'they' into the round hole of gender neutrality?
> 
> Marcel Simon

Two points:
  (1) ``One'' is not in very wide usage, at least in conversation,
      at least partially because it sounds affected.
  (2) Singular ``They'' is at least as widely used, especially in
      conversation.

		-Ed Hall
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