The nature of wizards
Chip Salzenberg
chip at tct.uucp
Tue Oct 16 01:27:12 AEST 1990
According to dave at 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 at 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
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