----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 9:05 AM Subject: CS>"Their" means more than one
> In a message dated 09/05/2001 16:52:36 Central Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << In the > end, the person harboring the anger to a point that it simmers, can do great > damage to their own self. >> > Very true. But abandoning the generic "his" in the pursuit of political > correctness certainly has messed up the language and created a worse problem, > as in "their own self." Actually, according to some grammar experts (I believe William Safire and some others, though I could be wrong about who THEY are), the presumed "politically correct" generic pronoun "their" and "theirs" was used some 200 years ago, and is today considered grammatically correct. Even if it wasn't, I'd still use it. "HE" DOESN'T APPLY TO WOMEN. Nina Colloid -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
