[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 23:50:32 +0000 (GMT)
> Oh. I see. You were talking about 'faculty' as a count
> noun.
I was, yes.
>The justification for using it so is non-existent.
indeed
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Sat, 2/10/10, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, 2 October, 2010, 0:37
> 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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