[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2010 08:49:25 +0900
Why not "Every student is to bring three colored markers to the first
class"?
John
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Judy wrote re 'they'
>
> certainly sounds like me... I can't see a feminist angle, there's already
>> the gender-neutral professor, over there.
>>
>
> The feminist aspect appears where one would once have written e.g. 'Every
> student is to bring three colored markers to his first class,' one may (if
> one isn't a fan of his/her. etc.) write,
> 'Every student is to bring three colored markers to their first class,'
> thus avoiding the default to the masculine pronoun.
>
> Oh. I see. You were talking about 'faculty' as a count noun. The
> justification for using it so is non-existent.
>
> Robert Paul,
> teaching one course, therefore .11 of an authority
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