David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:09:38AM -0800, Brad Beyenhof wrote: > >> I was under the impression (don't know if I ever heard it in an >> educational setting) that "their" had become the gender-neutral >> singular pronoun... kind of like how "sie" in German can be "she," >> "you," or "they" depending on context and capitalization. So it's not >> that "everyone" is treated as plural, it's that "their" is treated as >> singular.
Strictly sprechen, isn't "sie" used for "she" or "they", and "Sie" (capitalized) used for "you" (singular or plural)? >.. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
