[lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 09:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
> > I take it you shun Jane Austen
> >
> I recall this part of the exchange,
I thought you might :)
> How's the golf?
rained off. Torrential rain. For hours. The Americans came equipped with
waterproofs that didn't protect against water.
er... that's the golf news.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Fri, 1/10/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Member Issues
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, 1 October, 2010, 17:45
>
> 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
>
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