|
Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
Join date: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 2,235
|
04-20-2006 03:14
From: Michael Seraph Torley might be amazed that he's a she. Female avatar equals the pronoun she. |
|
Jonas Pierterson
Dark Harlequin
Join date: 27 Dec 2005
Posts: 3,660
|
04-20-2006 03:19
In correct grammar, one uses the masculine term if one does not know the gender of the personage or persons.
_____________________
Good freebies here and here I must protest. I am not a merry man! - Warf, ST: TNG, episode: Qpid You killed my father. Prepare to die. - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride You killed My father. Your a-- is mine! - Hellboy
|
|
Vares Solvang
It's all Relative
Join date: 26 Jan 2005
Posts: 2,235
|
That is soooooo 20th century
04-20-2006 16:12
From: Jonas Pierterson In correct grammar, one uses the masculine term if one does not know the gender of the personage or persons. Quite true in the 1950's. These days it's considered just as acceptable (and possibly preferable) to use the plural, but gender neutral, pronouns instead. "they" "their" “them” etc. Of course there is also the argument "Who gives a crap?? We were talking about economics, not English!" |