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Old Thu Oct 11, 2018, 09:50am
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Originally Posted by bob jenkins View Post
English does not have a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun. That causes the problem.

It's why so many now use "they" (or "their") -- and I find that more problematic than his / her or s/he
When I (and most of us, I assume) was in grade school, I was always taught to default to "he/him/his" when gender was indefinite.

How times have changed.
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