[greymule]

How about this:

The pitcher starts with the right foot in contact with the pitching plate, the left foot is considerably outside the pitching plate prior to the start of the pitch. As the pitch is delivered, the left foot must remain outside the pitching plate. This is a legal pitch.

Is this more clear and gets rid of any PC stuff??

This trick does work here. Good thinking. Not really any difference in clarity. Unfortunately, however, the device of using "the" to get around a possessive pronoun doesn't work well in most contexts.

But I look at it this way: you could change everything in the language to suit the current demands of the p.c. police, and tomorrow they would find more things to complain about. I wonder whether I will live to see the word goodbye become a no-no, since when the p.c. police learn what it means, they will claim that it is offensive to atheists. After, all most of say this contraction of God be with ye several times a day.

Already some kid lodged a complaint with her school because her teacher said, "Bless you," after the kid sneezed.


[Edited by greymule on Feb 14th, 2005 at 11:21 PM]