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Subject:RE: His/Her v. Their From:Misti Delaney <Misti -dot- Delaney -at- us -dot- yazaki -dot- com> To:Becca <becca -at- di -dot- org>, tech2wr-l <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 26 Oct 2012 14:14:25 +0000
My preference would be "The user's". "His/her" is clumsy and "their" is way too likely to invite bad grammar.
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Subject: His/Her v. Their
Some documents I'm editing of necessity give procedures in third person rather than the assumed (you) second person. There's no way around this.
In the document I'm editing, they use His/Her. My inclination is to use "their" - comments?
Regards,
Becca
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