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From: stadlin@hou2h.UUCP (Art Stadlin)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Now is the time for all good men...
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Date: Wed, 22-May-85 20:23:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 20:23:45 1985
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> From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
> 
> ......
> The push  
> for THIS kind of change in the use of the language would have a different 
> connotation from the bleeding-hearded whine "but we're all people, aren't we?"
> associated with mutilations like "to each his/her own".
> ......
> It just makes too much sense to argue with, doesn't it?
> 
>                               Cheryl Stewart, BMOC
> 
I'll argue with you....

What's wrong with "to each their own?"  Would you consider that to be
a language mutilation?  Consider these other examples of "them"
and "their" as singular pronouns:

"It's enough to drive anyone out of their senses."
                        -- George Bernard Shaw

"You do not have to understand someone in order to love them."
                        -- Lawrence Durrell

Other examples and interesting discussion may be found in
        "The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing"
        by Casey Miller & Kate Swift
        (Lippincott & Crowell, New York, 1980)
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