Re: style (was stylus)
Ronald Connelly (ronconn@u.washington.edu)
Thu, 29 May 1997 21:45:15 -0700 (PDT)
> >On Thu, 29 May 1997 FotoDave@aol.com wrote:
> >> PS: Are people really very sensitive about gender pronoun as described in
> >> books? It is tiring to always type he/she. Will people really mind if I just
> >> use his as the generic pronoun?
> >
> On Fri, 30 May 1997, Luis Nadeau wrote:
>
> People can use whatever they want as far as I'm concerned but if they
> come to tell me their way is the only way they'll have to justify their
> cultural superiority complex and I wish them good luck because they'll
> need it, whoever they are.
Well, call me a politically incorrect, ugly American, but if anyone on
this list ever constructs sentences like, "Judy and Terry and disagreed.
Each had his own opinion." I for one will laugh at them -- offline of
course -- regardless of of their grammatical correctness.