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Subject:Re: use of he/she/they From:"Cramer, Kim" <kcramer -at- NCSLINK -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:41:00 -0700
Sella wrote:
>BTW, your sample sentence has so much going on that it is confusing
>(there's an I, an us, and a he/she/them); also, your "boss" seems to be
>a specific person, and so would presumably have a specific gender.
And Tim Covil added:
>Okay, I'll re-word. "I think you should go to the boss and see what they
>think."
How about: "I think you should go ask your manager's opinion."
It avoids the need for specifying the gender (it's irrelevant anyway),
addresses the reader directly, and also avoids a clumsy possesive for
"boss."
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NCS Education, Mesa AZ
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