[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:45:08 -0700
On Oct 1, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Judith Evans wrote:
>> Early this morning I explained myself badly. "They"
>> as a gender neutral pronoun to indicate a single
>> person. "A professor must remember to take their book
>> bag to college." Hear it all the time. Hate it.
>
> I knew what you meant. But "A professor must remember to take his book bag
> to college" is obnoxious. "Professors...book bags..." is I suppose best.
>
> I take it you shun Jane Austen
>
I recall this part of the exchange, which is why before I wrote about Dai, the
Faculty, I checked with the OED to see if we were returning to an older form.
Mutatis wotsit, eh?
How's the golf?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
